Methods and systems for evaluating the sensitivity or resistance of tumor specimens to chemotherapeutic agents

ABSTRACT

The present invention provides methods, systems, and kits for evaluating the sensitivity and/or resistance of tumor specimens to one or a combination of chemotherapeutic agents. Particularly, the invention provides malignant cell gene signatures that are predictive of a tumor&#39;s response to candidate chemotherapeutic regimens.

PRIORITY

This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/417,678, filed Nov. 29, 2010, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/469,364, filed Mar. 30, 2011.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to the field of molecular diagnostics, and particularly to gene expression signatures that are indicative of a tumor's sensitivity and/or resistance to chemotherapeutic agents or combinations of agents, including chemotherapeutic agents, small molecule agents, biologics, and targeted therapies. The subject matter of this application is related to PCT/US2010/036854, filed Jun. 1, 2010, which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.

BACKGROUND

Traditionally, treatments for cancer patients are selected based on agents and regimens identified to be most effective in large randomized clinical trials. However, since such therapy is not individualized, this approach often results in the administration of sub-optimal chemotherapy. The administration of sub-optimal or ineffective chemotherapy to a particular patient can lead to unsuccessful treatment, including death, disease progression, unnecessary toxicity, and higher health care costs.

In an attempt to individualize cancer treatment, in vitro drug-response assay systems (chemoresponse assays) and gene expression signatures have been developed to guide patient treatment decisions. However, the use of these systems are not sufficiently widespread due, in-part, to difficulties in interpreting the data in a clinically meaningful way, as may be required in many instances to drive administration of an individualized treatment regimen. For example, while in vitro systems are recognized as predicting generally inactive and/or generally active agents, and/or for predicting short-term responses, such systems are not generally recognized as providing accurate estimations of patient survival with particular treatment regimens (Fruehauf et al., Endocrine-Related Cancer 9:171-182 (2002). Further, gene expression signatures sufficient to guide patient treatment are difficult to validate, generally taking many years to identify and validate in independent patient populations. For example, identifying and validating gene expression signatures in independent patient populations generally requires access to large numbers of patient samples as well as corresponding clinical data, including the chosen course of treatment and treatment outcome.

A system that provides convenient, cost-effective and accurate results with regard to a tumor's sensitivity or resistance to candidate treatments would encourage more individualized treatment plans. Such methods could present a clear advantage of an individualized treatment regimen, as compared to a non-individualized selection of agents based on large randomized trials.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides methods, systems, and kits for preparing gene expression profiles that are indicative of a tumor's sensitivity and/or resistance to chemotherapeutic agents or combinations. Thus, the invention further provides methods systems, and kits for evaluating the sensitivity and/or resistance of tumor specimens to one or a combination of therapeutic agents. Particularly, the invention provides malignant cell, gene expression signatures that are indicative of a tumor's sensitivity and/or resistance to candidate therapeutic regimens.

In one aspect, the invention provides methods for preparing gene expression profiles for tumor specimens and cultured cells, as well as methods for predicting a tumor's sensitivity or resistance to therapeutic agents or combinations by evaluating tumor gene expression profiles for the presence of indicative gene expression signatures. The method comprises preparing a gene expression profile for a patient tumor specimen, and evaluating the gene expression profile for the presence of one or more gene expression signatures, each gene expression signature being indicative of sensitivity or resistance to a therapeutic agent or combination of agents. By predicting the tumor's sensitivity or resistance to candidate chemotherapeutic agents, the invention thereby provides information to guide individualized cancer treatment.

The gene expression profile may be prepared directly from patient specimens, e.g., by a process comprising RNA extraction or isolation directly from tumor specimens, or alternatively, and particularly where specimens are amenable to culture, malignant cells may be enriched (e.g., expanded) in culture for gene expression analysis. For example, malignant cells may be enriched in culture by disaggregating or mincing the tumor specimen to prepare tumor tissue explants, and allowing one or more tumor tissue explants to form a cell culture monolayer. RNA is then extracted from the cultured cells for gene expression analysis. The resulting gene expression profile, whether prepared directly from patient tumor tissue or prepared from cultured cells, contains gene transcript levels (or “expression levels”) for genes that are representative of the cells sensitivity or resistance to chemotherapeutic agents and/or combinations of agents.

The gene expression profile may be evaluated for the presence of one or more indicative gene expression signatures. For example, the profiles are compared to one or more gene expression signatures that are each indicative of sensitivity or resistance to a candidate agent or combination of agents, to thereby score or classify the patient's specimen as sensitive or resistant to such agents or combinations. The gene expression signatures in some embodiments include those generally applicable to a variety of cancer types and/or therapeutic agent(s). Alternatively, or in addition, the gene expression signatures are predictive for a particular type of cancer, such as breast cancer, and/or for a particular course of treatment. The gene expression signature may be predictive of survival or duration of survival, a pathological complete response (pCR) to treatment, or other measure of patient outcome, such as progression free interval or tumor size, among others.

For example, the gene expression signature may be indicative of sensitivity or resistance to one or more of paclitaxel, fluorouracil, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide, or the combination (e.g., “TFAC”), and exemplary gene expression signatures according to this embodiment are disclosed in Table 1. In another embodiment, the gene expression signature is indicative of sensitivity and/or resistance to treatment with one or more of epirubicin and/or cyclophosphamide (e.g., “EC” combination), and such exemplary gene expression signatures are disclosed in Table 2. In another embodiment, the gene expression signature may be indicative of sensitivity or resistance to one or more of fluorouracil, epirubicin and cyclophosphamide, (e.g., “FEC” combination), and exemplary gene expression signatures according to this embodiment are disclosed in Table 3. Still further, the gene expression signature may be indicative of sensitivity or resistance to one or more of doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide (e.g., “AC” combination), and exemplary gene expression signatures according to this embodiment are disclosed in Table 4 and Table 9. In another embodiment, the gene signature is indicative of sensitivity or resistance to one or more of doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide and docetaxel (e.g., “ACT” combination), and exemplary gene expression signatures in accordance with this embodiment are disclosed in Table 5 and Table 10. In another embodiment, the gene expression signature is indicative of sensitivity or resistance to one or more of Cyclophosphamide, Epirubicin, Fluorouracil, and Paclitaxel (e.g., “TFEC” combination), and exemplary gene expression signatures in accordance with this embodiment are disclosed in Table 6 and Table 8. In another embodiment, the gene expression signature is indicative of sensitivity or resistance to one or more of Docetaxel and Fluorouracil (e.g., “DX” combination), and exemplary gene expression signatures in accordance with this embodiment are disclosed in Table 7. Such gene expression signatures were identified in cancer cell lines by correlating the level of in vitro chemosensitivity with levels of gene expression. Resulting gene expression signatures were independently validated in patient test populations as described in detail herein.

In some embodiments, the results of gene expression analysis are combined with results from in vitro chemosensitivity testing, to provide a more complete and/or accurate prognostic and/or predictive tool for guiding patient therapy.

In a related aspect, the invention provides methods for determining gene expression signatures that are indicative of a tumor or cancer cell's sensitivity to a chemotherapeutic agent or combination. Such gene expression signatures are first identified in cancer cells by correlating the level of in vitro chemosensitivity with gene expression levels. The cultured cells may be immortalized cell lines, or may be derived directly from patient tumor specimens, for example, by enriching or expanding malignant epithelial cells from the tumor specimen in monolayer culture, and suspending the cultured cells for testing and/or RNA isolation. The resulting gene expression signatures are then independently validated in patient test populations having available gene expression data and corresponding clinical data, including information regarding the treatment regimen and outcome of treatment. This aspect of the invention reduces the length of time and quantity of patient samples needed for identifying and validating such gene expression signatures.

In other aspects, the invention provides computer systems and kits (e.g., arrays, bead sets, and probe sets) for generating gene expression profiles that are useful for predicting a patient's response to a chemotherapeutic agent or combination, for example, in connection with the methods of the invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

FIG. 1 illustrates a method for identifying and validating gene expression signatures. Cancer cell lines are used for determining gene expression levels, as well as levels of in vitro sensitivity/resistance to therapeutics agents or combinations of agents (e.g., using CHEMOFX). Gene expression signatures indicative of resistance and/or sensitivity to these agents or combinations in vitro are identified by correlating in vitro responses with gene expression levels. The resulting gene expression signature(s) are validated in a patient population by evaluating patient tumor gene expression data for the presence of the gene expression signatures. Patient samples are scored and/or classified as resistant and/or sensitive to chemotherapeutic agents on the basis of the gene signatures, thereby obtaining an outcome prediction. The accuracy of the classification or prediction is tested by comparing the prediction with the actual outcome of treatment.

FIG. 2 illustrates the accuracy of a 350-gene signature from Table 1 for predicting pCR in an independent patient population (133 neoadjuvant breast cancer patients treated with TFAC). Outcome is pathological complete response (pCR). The results are shown as a receiver operator curve (ROC). When using one third of the prediction scores as cutoff, the accuracy is 0.73, sensitivity is 0.62 and specificity is 0.78. The right panel shows that the gene expression signature of Table 1 is stable over a large range of increasing gene number, from less than about 10 to over 1000 genes (Table 1 lists the top 350 genes/probes).

FIG. 3 illustrates the accuracy of a 350-gene signature from Table 2 for predicting pCR in an independent patient population (37 neoadjuvant breast cancer patients treated with EC). Outcome is pathological complete response (pCR). The results are shown as a receiver operator curve (ROC). When using one third of the prediction scores as cutoff, the accuracy is 0.71, sensitivity is 0.56 and specificity is 0.77. The right panel shows that the gene expression signature of Table 2 is stable over a large range of increasing gene number, from less than about 10 to over 1000 genes (Table 2 lists the top 350 genes/probes).

FIG. 4 illustrates the accuracy of a 350-gene signature from Table 3 for predicting pCR in an independent patient population (87 neoadjuvant breast cancer patients treated with FAC). Outcome is pathological complete response (pCR). The results are shown as a receiver operator curve (ROC). When using one third of the prediction scores as cutoff, the accuracy is 0.69, sensitivity is 0.57 and specificity is 0.70. The right panel shows that the gene expression signature of Table 3 is stable over a large range of increasing gene number, from less than about 10 to over 1000 genes (Table 3 lists the top 350 genes/probes).

FIG. 5 shows prediction results for patients receiving FEC/TX with and without H treatment. A: ROC curve for TFEC MGP for all patients who did not receive H treatment. B: ROC for TFEC MGP for all patients who received H treatment. C: ROC curve for TFEC MGP for ER− patients who did not receive H treatment. D: ROC curve for TFEC MGP for ER+ patients who did not receive H treatment.

FIG. 6 shows the accuracy of a 417-gene signature from Table 9 for predicting pCR in an independent patient population (220 patients who received pre-operative AC). Outcome is pathological complete response (pCR). The results are shown as a receiver operator curve (ROC) for: all patients, ER− patients, and ER+ patients.

FIG. 7 shows the accuracy of a 438-gene signature from Table 10 for predicting pCR in an independent population (102 patients who received pre-operative AC+T). Outcome is pathological complete response (pCR). The results are shown as a receiver operator curve (ROC) for: all patients, ER− patients, and ER+ patients.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides methods, systems, and kits for preparing gene expression profiles that are indicative of a tumor's sensitivity and/or resistance to chemotherapeutic agents or combinations. Thus, the invention further provides methods systems, and kits for evaluating the sensitivity and/or resistance of tumor specimens to one or a combination of chemotherapeutic agents. The invention provides malignant cell gene expression signatures that are indicative of a tumor's sensitivity and/or resistance to candidate chemotherapeutic regimens.

Methods for Gene Expression Profiling and Predicting Response to Treatment

The invention provides methods for preparing gene expression profiles for tumor specimens, as well as methods for evaluating a tumor's sensitivity and/or resistance to one or more chemotherapeutic agents or combinations of agents. For example, the gene expression profile generated for a tumor specimen, or cultured cells derived therefrom, is evaluated for the presence of one or more indicative gene expression signatures. The gene expression signatures are indicative of a response to a treatment regimen. In this aspect, the invention provides information to guide a physician in designing/administering an individualized chemotherapeutic regimen for a cancer patient.

The patient generally is one with a cancer or neoplastic condition, such as one that is treated with the therapeutic agents described herein. The patient may suffer from cancer of essentially any tissue or organ, including breast, ovaries, lung, colon, skin, prostate, kidney, endometrium, nasopharynx, pancreas, head and neck, kidney, and brain, among others. The patient may be inflicted with a carcinoma or sarcoma. The patient may have a solid tumor of epithelial origin. The tumor specimen may be obtained from the patient by surgery, or may be obtained by biopsy, such as a fine needle biopsy or other procedure prior to the selection/initiation of therapy. In certain embodiments, the cancer is breast cancer, including preoperative or post-operative breast cancer. In certain embodiments, the patient has not undergone treatment to remove the breast tumor, and therefore is a candidate for neoadjuvant therapy.

The cancer may be primary or recurrent, and may be of any type (as described above), stage (e.g., Stage I, II, III, or IV or an equivalent of other staging system), and/or histology (e.g., serous adenocarcinoma, endometroid adenocarcinoma, mucinous adenocarcinoma, undifferentiated adenocarcinoma, transitional cell adenocarcinoma, or adenocarcinoma, etc.). The patient may be of any age, sex, performance status, and/or extent and duration of remission.

In certain embodiments, the patient is a candidate for treatment with the combination of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, fluorouracil, and paclitaxel (“TFAC”). In other embodiments, the patient is a candidate for treatment with the combination of doxorubicin, fluorouracil, and cyclophosphamide (“FAC”). In other embodiments, the patient is a candidate for treatment with the combination of cyclophosphamide and epirubicin (“EC”). Still further, the patient may be a candidate for treatment with the combination of cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin (“AC”). In other embodiments, the patient is a candidate for treatment with the combination of cyclophosphamide, docetaxel, and doxorubicin (“ACT”). In other embodiments, the patient is a candidate for treatment with the combination with cyclophosphamide, epirubicin, fluorouracil, and docetaxel (“TFEC”). In other embodiments, the patient is a candidate for treatment with a combination of docetaxel and fluorouracil (“DX”). As used herein in the context of patient treatment, the term “combination” includes any treatment regimen with the particular set of agents. For example, the combination TFEC includes treatment with cycles of FEC followed by cycles of T.

The gene expression profile is determined for a tumor tissue or cell sample, such as a tumor sample removed from the patient by surgery or biopsy. The tumor sample may be “fresh,” in that it was removed from the patent within about five days of processing, and remains suitable or amenable to culture. In some embodiments, the tumor sample is not “fresh,” in that the sample is not suitable or amenable to culture. Tumor samples are generally not fresh after from 3 to 7 days (e.g., about five days) of removal from the patient. The sample may be frozen after removal from the patient, and preserved for later RNA isolation. The sample for RNA isolation may be a formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue.

In certain embodiments, the malignant cells are enriched or expanded in culture by forming a monolayer culture from tumor sample explants. For example, cohesive multicellular particulates (explants) are prepared from a patient's tissue sample (e.g., a biopsy sample or surgical specimen) using mechanical fragmentation. This mechanical fragmentation of the explant may take place in a medium substantially free of enzymes that are capable of digesting the explant. Some enzymatic digestion may take place in certain embodiments, such as for ovarian or colorectal tumors.

For example, where it is desirable to expand and/or enrich malignant cells in culture relative to non-malignant cells that reside in the tumor, the tissue sample is systematically minced using two sterile scalpels in a scissor-like motion, or mechanically equivalent manual or automated opposing incisor blades. This cross-cutting motion creates smooth cut edges on the resulting tissue multicellular particulates. The tumor particulates each measure from about 0.25 to about 1.5 mm³, for example, about 1 mm³. After the tissue sample has been minced, the particles are plated in culture flasks. The number of explants plated per flask may vary, for example, between 1 and 25, such as from 5 to 20 explants per flask. For example, about 9 explants may be plated per T-25 flask, and 20 particulates may be plated per T-75 flask. For purposes of illustration, the explants may be evenly distributed across the bottom surface of the flask, followed by initial inversion for about 10-15 minutes. The flask may then be placed in a non-inverted position in a 37° C. CO₂ incubator for about 5-10 minutes. Flasks are checked regularly for growth and contamination. Over a period of days to a few weeks a cell monolayer will form.

Further, it is believed that tumor cells grow out from the multicellular explant prior to stromal cells. Thus, by initially maintaining the tissue cells within the explant and removing the explant at a predetermined time (e.g., at about 10 to about 50 percent confluency, or at about 15 to about 25 percent confluency), growth of the tumor cells (as opposed to stromal cells) into a monolayer is facilitated. In certain embodiments, the tumor explant may be agitated to substantially loosen or release tumor cells from the tumor explant, and the released cells cultured to produce a cell culture monolayer. The use of this procedure to form a cell culture monolayer helps maximize the growth of representative malignant cells from the tissue sample. Monolayer growth rate and/or cellular morphology (e.g., epithelial character) may be monitored using, for example, a phase-contrast inverted microscope. Generally, the cells of the monolayer should be actively growing at the time the cells are suspended for RNA extraction. IHC may be used to determine the epithelial character of the cultured cells.

The process for enriching or expanding malignant cells in culture is described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,728,541, 6,900,027, 6,887,680, 6,933,129, 6,416,967, 7,112,415, 7,314,731, and 7,501,260 (all of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties). The process may further employ the variations described in US Published Patent Application Nos. 2007/0059821 and 2008/0085519, both of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.

In preparing the gene expression profile, RNA is extracted from the tumor tissue or cultured cells by any known method. For example, RNA may be purified from cells using a variety of standard procedures as described, for example, in RNA Methodologies, A laboratory guide for isolation and characterization, 2nd edition, 1998, Robert E. Farrell, Jr., Ed., Academic Press. In addition, there are various products commercially available for RNA isolation which may be used. Total RNA or polyA+ RNA may be used for preparing gene expression profiles in accordance with the invention.

The gene expression profile is then generated for the samples using any of various techniques known in the art, and described in detail elsewhere herein. Such methods generally include, without limitation, hybridization-based assays, such as microarray analysis and similar formats (e.g., Whole Genome DASL™ Assay, Illumina, Inc.), polymerase-based assays, such as RT-PCR (e.g., Taqman™), flap-endonuclease-based assays (e.g., Invader™), as well as direct mRNA capture with branched DNA (QuantiGene™) or Hybrid Capture™ (Digene).

The gene expression profile contains gene expression levels for a plurality of genes whose expression levels are predictive or indicative of the tumor's response to one or a combination of chemotherapeutic agents. Such genes are listed collectively in Tables 1-10. As used herein, the term “gene,” refers to a DNA sequence expressed in a sample as an RNA transcript, and may be a full-length gene (protein encoding or non-encoding) or an expressed portion thereof such as expressed sequence tag or “EST.” Thus, the genes listed in Tables 1-10 are each independently a full-length gene sequence, whose expression product is present in samples, or is a portion of an expressed sequence detectable in samples, such as an EST sequence. The probe and gene sequences listed in Tables 1-10 are publicly available, and such sequences are hereby incorporated by reference.

The genes listed in Tables 1-10 may be differentially expressed in drug-sensitive samples versus drug-resistant (e.g., non-responsive) samples as described below. As used herein, “differentially expressed” means that the level or abundance of an RNA transcript (or abundance of an RNA population sharing a common target (or probe-hybridizing) sequence, such as a group of splice variant RNAs) is significantly higher or lower in a drug-sensitive sample as compared to a reference level (e.g., a drug resistant or non-responsive sample). For example, the level of the RNA or RNA population may be higher or lower than a reference level. The reference level may be the level of the same RNA or RNA population in a control sample or control population (e.g., a Mean level for a drug-resistant or non-responsive sample), or may represent a cut-off or threshold level for a sensitive or resistant designation.

Gene expression profiles for the cell lines tested herein, determined with the hgu133a+2 microarray platform (Affymetrix), are publicly available (Hoeflich et al: In vivo Antitumor Activity of MEK and Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Inhibitors in Basal-Like Breast Cancer Models. Clinical Cancer Research 2009, 15(14):4649-4664 (which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety). Also see the Gene Expression Omnibus database (e.g., Accession No. GSE12777).

Table 1 lists genes that are expressed at significantly different levels in TFAC-sensitive and TFAC-resistant cell lines. TFAC refers to the combination cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, fluorouracil, and paclitaxel. Table 2 lists genes that are expressed at significantly different levels in EC-sensitive versus EC-resistant cell lines. EC refers to the combination cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin. Table 3 lists genes that are expressed at significantly different levels in FEC-sensitive versus FEC-resistant cell lines. FEC refers to the combination of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and epirubicin. Tables 4 and 9 list genes that are expressed at significantly different levels in AC-sensitive versus AC-resistant cell lines. AC refers to the combination of cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin. Tables 5 and 10 list genes that are expressed at significantly different levels in ACT-sensitive versus ACT-resistant cell lines. ACT refers to the combination cyclophosphamide, docetaxel, and doxorubicin. Table 6 and Table 8 each list genes that are expressed at significantly different levels in TFEC-sensitive versus TFEC-resistant cell lines. TFEC refers to the combination cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil, epirubicin, and paclitaxel. Table 7 lists genes that are expressed at significantly different levels in DX-sensitive versus DX-resistant cell lines. DX refers to the combination docetaxel and fluorouracil. Sequences that correspond to these genes are known, and the publicly available sequences are hereby incorporated by reference.

Tables 1-8 include the sensitive and resistant mean expression scores for each gene (or probe), and list the fold change from sensitive to resistant to TFAC, EC, FEC, AC, ACT, TFEC, and DX. For example, where x is the mean expression score for sensitive cell lines for a particular gene, and y is the mean expression score for resistant cell lines for that gene, fold change is represented by mean X/mean Y. Sensitivity and resistance to the indicated drug or combination were determined for each cell line in vitro as an AUC value essentially as described herein, and the top ⅓ values were designated as sensitive, and the bottom ⅓ values were designated as resistant.

Thus, in accordance with this aspect, the gene expression profile, which is generated from the tumor specimen or malignant cells cultured therefrom as described, may contain the levels of expression for at least about 3 genes listed in Table 1. In some embodiments, the patient's gene expression profile contains the levels of expression for at least about 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 40, 50, 75, 100, or 200 genes listed in Table 1, such genes being differentially expressed in drug-sensitive tumor cells (e.g., TFAC-sensitive cells) versus drug resistant tumor cells, and which may be breast cancer cells. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for all or substantially all genes listed in Table 1 such as at least about 250, 300, or 350 genes. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile contains the expression levels of no more than 2000 genes, 1000 genes, or 500 genes so as to allow profiles to be prepared from custom detection assays (e.g., custom microarray), where the profile includes the genes from Table 1. The profile may be generated in some embodiments with the probes disclosed in Table 1.

Alternatively or in addition, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for at least about 3 genes listed in Table 2. In some embodiments, the patient's gene expression profile contains the levels of expression for at least about 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 40, 50, 75, 100, or 200 genes listed in Table 2, such genes being differentially expressed in drug-sensitive tumor cells (e.g., EC-sensitive cells) versus drug resistant tumor cells, and which may be breast cancer cells. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for all or substantially all genes listed in Table 2, such as at least about 250, 300 or 350 genes. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile contains the expression levels of no more than 2000 genes, 1000 genes, or 500 genes, including the genes from Table 2. The profile may be generated in some embodiments with the probes disclosed in Table 2.

Alternatively or in addition, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for at least about 3 genes listed in Table 3. In some embodiments, the patient's gene expression profile contains the levels of expression for at least about 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 40, 50, 75, 100, or 200 genes listed in Table 3, such genes being differentially expressed in drug-sensitive tumor cells (e.g., FEC-sensitive cells) versus drug resistant tumor cells, and which may be breast cancer cells. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for all or substantially all genes listed in Table 3, such as at least about 250, 300 or 350 genes. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile contains the expression levels of no more than 2000 genes, 1000 genes, or 500 genes, including the genes from Table 3. The profile may be generated in some embodiments with the probes disclosed in Table 3.

Alternatively or in addition, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for at least about 3 genes listed in Table 4 or Table 9. In some embodiments, the patient's gene expression profile contains the levels of expression for at least about 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 40, 50, 75, 100, or 200 genes listed in Table 4 or Table 9, such genes being differentially expressed in drug-sensitive tumor cells (e.g., AC-sensitive cells) versus drug resistant tumor cells, and which may be breast cancer cells. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for all or substantially all genes listed in Tables 4 and/or 9, such as at least about 250, 300, or 350 genes. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile contains the expression levels of no more than 2000 genes, 1000 genes, or 500 genes, including the genes from Table 4 or Table 9. The profile may be generated in some embodiments with the probes disclosed in Table 4 or Table 9.

Alternatively or in addition, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for at least about 3 genes listed in Table 5 or Table 10. In some embodiments, the patient's gene expression profile contains the levels of expression for at least about 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 40, 50, 75, 100, or 200 genes listed in Table 5 or Table 10, such genes being differentially expressed in drug-sensitive tumor cells (e.g., ACT-sensitive cells) versus drug resistant tumor cells, and which may be breast cancer cells. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for all or substantially all genes listed in Table 5 or Table 10, such as at least about 250, 300, or 350 genes. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile contains the expression levels of no more than 2000 genes, 1000 genes, or 500 genes, including the genes from Table 5 or Table 10. The profile may be generated in some embodiments with the probes disclosed in Table 5 or Table 10.

Alternatively or in addition, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for at least about 3 genes listed in Table 6 or Table 8. In some embodiments, the patient's gene expression profile contains the levels of expression for at least about 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 40, 50, 75, 100, or 200 genes listed in Table 6 or Table 8, such genes being differentially expressed in drug-sensitive tumor cells (e.g., TFEC-sensitive cells) versus drug resistant tumor cells, and which may be breast cancer cells. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for all or substantially all genes listed in Table 6 or Table 8, such as at least about 250, 300, or 350 genes. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile contains the expression levels of no more than 2000 genes, 1000 genes, or 500 genes, including the genes from Table 6 or Table 8. The profile may be generated in some embodiments with the probes disclosed in Table 6 or Table 8.

Alternatively or in addition, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for at least about 3 genes listed in Table 7. In some embodiments, the patient's gene expression profile contains the levels of expression for at least about 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 40, 50, 75, 100, or 200 genes listed in Table 7, such genes being differentially expressed in drug-sensitive tumor cells (e.g., DX-sensitive cells) versus drug resistant tumor cells, and which may be breast cancer cells. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile may contain the levels of expression for all or substantially all genes listed in Table 7, such as at least about 250, 300, or 350 genes. In some embodiments, the gene expression profile contains the expression levels of no more than 2000 genes, 1000 genes, or 500 genes, including the genes from Table 7. The profile may be generated in some embodiments with the probes disclosed in Table 7.

The gene expression profile prepared according to this aspect of the invention is evaluated for the presence of one or more drug-sensitive and/or drug-resistant signatures. The gene expression signature(s) comprise the gene expression levels indicative of a drug-sensitive and/or drug-resistant cell, so as to enable a classification of the tumor's profile as sensitive or resistant. Specifically, the gene expression signature comprises indicative gene expression levels for a plurality of genes listed in one or more of Tables 1-10, such as at least 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 40, 50, 75, 100, 200, 250, 300, or 350 genes listed in one or more of Tables 1-10. The signature may comprise the Mean expression levels listed in Tables 1-10 or alternatively, may be prepared from other data sets or using other statistical criteria.

The gene expression signature(s) may be in a format consistent with any nucleic acid detection format, such as those described herein, and will generally be comparable to the format used for profiling patient samples. For example, the gene expression signature and patient profiles may both be prepared by nucleic acid hybridization method, and with the same hybridization platform and controls so as to facilitate comparisons. The gene expression signatures may further embody any number of statistical measures to distinguish drug-sensitive and/or drug-resistant levels, including Mean or Median expression levels and/or cut-off or threshold values. Such signatures may be prepared from the data sets disclosed herein or independent gene expression data sets.

Once the gene expression profile for patient samples are prepared, the profile is evaluated for the presence of one or more of the gene signatures, by scoring or classifying the patient profile against each gene signature.

Various classification schemes are known for classifying samples between two or more classes or groups, and these include, without limitation: Principal Components Analysis, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines, Nearest Neighbors, Decision Trees, Logistic, Artificial Neural Networks, and Rule-based schemes. In addition, the predictions from multiple models can be combined to generate an overall prediction. For example, a “majority rules” prediction may be generated from the outputs of a Naïve Bayes model, a Support Vector Machine model, and a Nearest Neighbor model.

Thus, a classification algorithm or “class predictor” may be constructed to classify samples. The process for preparing a suitable class predictor is reviewed in R. Simon, Diagnostic and prognostic prediction using gene expression profiles in high-dimensional microarray data, British Journal of Cancer (2003) 89, 1599-1604, which review is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

Generally, the gene expression profiles for patient specimens are scored or classified as drug-sensitive signatures or drug-resistant signatures, including with stratified or continuous intermediate classifications or scores reflective of drug sensitivity. As discussed, such signatures may be assembled from gene expression data disclosed herein (Tables 1-8), or prepared from independent data sets. The signatures may be stored in a database and correlated to patient tumor gene expression profiles in response to user inputs.

After comparing the patient's gene expression profile to the drug-sensitive and/or drug-resistant signature, the sample is classified as, or for example, given a probability of being, a drug-sensitive profile or a drug-resistant (e.g., non-responsive) profile. The classification may be determined computationally based upon known methods as described above. The result of the computation may be displayed on a computer screen or presented in a tangible form, for example, as a probability (e.g., from 0 to 100%) of the patient responding to a given treatment. The report will aid a physician in selecting a course of treatment for the cancer patient. For example, in certain embodiments of the invention, the patient's gene expression profile will be determined to be a drug-sensitive profile on the basis of a probability, and the patient will be subsequently treated with that drug or combination. In other embodiments, the patient's profile will be determined to be a drug-resistant profile, thereby allowing the physician to exclude that candidate treatment for the patient, thereby sparing the patient the unnecessary toxicity.

In various embodiments, the method according to this aspect of the invention distinguishes a drug-sensitive tumor from a drug-resistant tumor with at least about 60%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90% or greater accuracy. In this respect, the method according to this aspect may lend additional or alternative predictive value over standard methods, such as for example, gene expression tests known in the art, or chemoresponse testing.

The methods of the invention aid the prediction of an outcome of treatment. That is, the gene expression signatures are each predictive of an outcome upon treatment with a candidate agent or combination. The outcome may be quantified in a number of ways. For example, the outcome may be an objective response, a clinical response, or a pathological response to a candidate treatment. The outcome may be determined based upon the techniques for evaluating response to treatment of solid tumors as described in Therasse et al., New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors, J. of the National Cancer Institute 92(3):205-207 (2000), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. For example, the outcome may be survival (including overall survival or the duration of survival), progression-free interval, or survival after recurrence. The timing or duration of such events may be determined from about the time of diagnosis or from about the time treatment (e.g., chemotherapy) is initiated. Alternatively, the outcome may be based upon a reduction in tumor size, tumor volume, or tumor metabolism, or based upon overall tumor burden, or based upon levels of serum markers especially where elevated in the disease state (e.g., PSA). The outcome in some embodiments may be characterized as a complete response, a partial response, stable disease, and progressive disease, as these terms are understood in the art.

In certain embodiments, the gene signature is indicative of a pathological complete response upon treatment with a particular candidate agent or combination (as already described). A pathological complete response, e.g., as determined by a pathologist following examination of tissue (e.g., breast and/or nodes in the case of breast cancer) removed at the time of surgery, generally refers to an absence of histological evidence of invasive tumor cells in the surgical specimen.

Chemoresponse Assay

The present invention may further comprise conducting chemoresponse testing with a panel of chemotherapeutic agents on cultured cells from a cancer patient, to thereby add additional predictive value. That is, the presence of one or more gene expression signatures in tumor cells, and the in vitro chemoresponse results for the tumor specimen, are used to predict an outcome of treatment (e.g., survival, pCR, etc.). For example, where the gene expression profile and chemoresponse test both indicate that a tumor is sensitive or resistant to a particular treatment, the predictive value of the method may be particularly high.

In other aspects of the invention, in vitro chemoresponse testing is used for identifying gene signatures in cultured malignant cells (e.g., immortalized cell lines or cultures derived directly from patient cells), as described elsewhere herein. For example, the identification of gene expression signatures within tumor gene expression profiles (the signatures being indicative of sensitivity and/or resistance to treatment regimens) may be supervised using results obtained from the in vitro chemoresponse test described herein.

Several in vitro chemoresponse systems are known and art, and some are reviewed in Fruehauf et al., In vitro assay-assisted treatment selection for women with breast or ovarian cancer, Endocrine-Related Cancer 9: 171-82 (2002). In certain embodiments, the chemoresponse assay is as described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,728,541, 6,900,027, 6,887,680, 6,933,129, 6,416,967, 7,112,415, 7,314,731, 7,501,260 (all of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties). The chemoresponse method may further employ the variations described in US Published Patent Application Nos. 2007/0059821 and 2008/0085519, both of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.

Briefly, in certain embodiments, cohesive multicellular particulates (explants) are prepared from a patient's tissue sample (e.g., a biopsy sample or surgical specimen) using mechanical fragmentation. This mechanical fragmentation of the explant may take place in a medium substantially free of enzymes that are capable of digesting the explant. Some enzymatic digestion may take place in certain embodiments. Generally, the tissue sample is systematically minced using two sterile scalpels in a scissor-like motion, or mechanically equivalent manual or automated opposing incisor blades. This cross-cutting motion creates smooth cut edges on the resulting tissue multicellular particulates. The tumor particulates each measure from about 0.25 to about 1.5 mm³, for example, about 1 mm³.

After the tissue sample has been minced, the particles are plated in culture flasks. The number of explants plated per flask may vary, for example, between one and 25, such as from 5 to 20 explants per flask. For example, about 9 explants may be plated per T-25 flask, and 20 particulates may be plated per T-75 flask. For purposes of illustration, the explants may be evenly distributed across the bottom surface of the flask, followed by initial inversion for about 10-15 minutes. The flask may then be placed in a non-inverted position in a 37° C. CO₂ incubator for about 5-10 minutes. Flasks are checked regularly for growth and contamination. Over a period of days to a few weeks a cell monolayer will form. Further, it is believed (without any intention of being bound by the theory) that tumor cells grow out from the multicellular explant prior to stromal cells. Thus, by initially maintaining the tissue cells within the explant and removing the explant at a predetermined time (e.g., at about 10 to about 50 percent confluency, or at about 15 to about 25 percent confluency), growth of the tumor cells (as opposed to stromal cells) into a monolayer is facilitated. In certain embodiments, the tumor explant may be agitated to substantially release tumor cells from the tumor explant, and the released cells cultured to produce a cell culture monolayer. The use of this procedure to form a cell culture monolayer helps maximize the growth of representative tumor cells from the tissue sample.

Prior to the chemotherapy assay, the growth of the cells may be monitored, and data from periodic counting may be used to determine growth rates which may or may not be considered parallel to growth rates of the same cells in vivo in the patient. If growth rate cycles can be documented, for example, then dosing of certain active agents can be customized for the patient. Monolayer growth rate and/or cellular morphology may be monitored using, for example, a phase-contrast inverted microscope. Generally, the cells of the monolayer should be actively growing at the time the cells are suspended and plated for drug exposure. The epithelial character of the cells may be confirmed by any number of methods. Thus, the monolayers will generally be non-confluent monolayers at the time the cells are suspended for drug exposure.

A panel of active agents may then be screened using the cultured cells. Generally, the agents are tested against the cultured cells using plates such as microtiter plates. For the chemosensitivity assay, a reproducible number of cells is delivered to a plurality of wells on one or more plates, preferably with an even distribution of cells throughout the wells. For example, cell suspensions are generally formed from the monolayer cells before substantial phenotypic drift of the tumor cell population occurs. The cell suspensions may be, without limitation, about 4,000 to 12,000 cells/ml, or may be about 4,000 to 9,000 cells/ml, or about 7,000 to 9,000 cells/ml. The individual wells for chemoresponse testing are inoculated with the cell suspension, with each well or “segregated site” containing about 10² to 10⁴ cells. The cells are generally cultured in the segregated sites for about 4 to about 30 hours prior to contact with an agent.

Each test well is then contacted with at least one pharmaceutical agent, for example, an agent for which a gene expression signature is available. Such agents include the combination of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, fluorouracil, and paclitaxel (“TFAC”), the combination of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, fluorouracil (“FAC”), the combination of cyclophosphamide and epirubicin (“EC” combination), the combination of cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin (“AC” combination), the combination of cyclophosphamide, docetaxel, and doxorubicin (“ACT” combination), the combination of cyclophosphamide, epirubicin, fluorouracil, and paclitaxel (“TFEC”), and the combination of docetaxel and fluorouracil (DX).

Alternatively, suitable pharmaceutical agents for training gene signatures by in vitro chemoresponse include small molecule agents, biologics, and targeted therapies. Exemplary agents are listed in the following table.

Drug Name Alternative Nomenclature Altretamine Hexalen ®, hydroxymethylpentamethylmelamine (HMPMM) Bleomycin Blenoxane ® Carboplatin Paraplatin ® Carmustine BCNU, BiCNU ® Cisplatin Platinol ®, CDDP Cyclophosphamide Cytoxan ®, Neosar ®, 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide, 4-HC Docetaxel Taxotere ®, D-Tax Doxorubicin Adriamycin ®, Rubex ®, Doxil ®* Epirubicin Ellence ® Erlotinib Tarceva ®, OSI-774 Etoposide VePesid ®, Etopophos ®, VP-16 Fluorouracil Adrucil ®, 5-FU, Efudex ®, Fluoroplex ®, Capecitabine*, Xeloda ®* Gemcitabine Gemzar ® Ifosfamide Ifex ®, 4-hydroperoxyifosfamide, 4-HI Irinotecan/SN-38 Camptosar ®, CPT-11, SN-38 Leucovorin Wellcovorin ® Lomustine CCNU, CeeNU ® Melphalan Alkeran ®, L-PAM Mitomycin Mutamycin ®, Mitozytrex ®, Mitomycin-C Oxaliplatin Eloxatin ® Paclitaxel Taxol ®, Abraxane ®* Procarbazine Matulane ®, PCZ Temozolomide Temodar ® Topotecan Hycamtin ® Vinblastine Velban ®, Exal ®, Velbe ®, Velsar ®, VLB Vincristine Oncovin ®, Vincasar PFS ®, VCR Vinorelbine Navelbine ®, NVB Pemetrexed Alimta ® Sunitinib Sutent ®

The efficacy of each agent in the panel is determined against the patient's cultured cells, by determining the viability of the cells (e.g., number of viable cells). For example, at predetermined intervals before, simultaneously with, or beginning immediately after, contact with each agent or combination, an automated cell imaging system may take images of the cells using one or more of visible light, UV light and fluorescent light. Alternatively, the cells may be imaged after about 25 to about 200 hours of contact with each treatment. The cells may be imaged once or multiple times, prior to or during contact with each treatment. Of course, any method for determining the viability of the cells may be used to assess the efficacy of each treatment in vitro.

In this manner the in vitro efficacy grade for each agent in the panel may be determined. While any grading system may be employed (including continuous or stratified), in certain embodiments the grading system is stratified, having from 2 or 3, to 10 response levels, e.g., about 3, 4, or 5 response levels. For example, when using three levels, the three grades may correspond to a responsive grade (e.g., sensitive), an intermediate responsive grade, and a non-responsive grade (e.g., resistant), as discussed more fully herein. In certain embodiments, the patient's cells show a heterogeneous response across the panel of agents, making the selection of an agent particularly crucial for the patient's treatment.

The output of the assay is a series of dose-response curves for tumor cell survivals under the pressure of a single or combination of drugs, with multiple dose settings each (e.g., ten dose settings). To better quantify the assay results, the invention employs in some embodiments a scoring algorithm accommodating a dose-response curve. Specifically, the chemoresponse data are applied to an algorithm to quantify the chemoresponse assay results by determining an area under curve (AUC).

However, since a dose-response curve only reflects the cell survival pattern in the presence of a certain tested drug, assays for different drugs and/or different cell types have their own specific cell survival pattern. Thus, dose response curves that share the same AUC value may represent different drug effects on cell survival. Additional information may therefore be incorporated into the scoring of the assay. In particular, a factor or variable for a particular drug or drug class (such as those drugs and drug classes described) and/or reference scores may be incorporated into the algorithm.

For example, in certain embodiments, the invention quantifies and/or compares the in vitro sensitivity/resistance of cells to drugs having varying mechanisms of action, and thus, in some cases, different dose-response curve shapes. In these embodiments, the invention compares the sensitivity of the patient's cultured cells to a plurality of agents that show some effect on the patient's cells in vitro (e.g., all score sensitive to some degree), so that the most effective agent may be selected for therapy. In such embodiments, an aAUC can be calculated to take into account the shape of a dose response curve for any particular drug or drug class. The aAUC takes into account changes in cytotoxicity between dose points along a dose-response curve, and assigns weights relative to the degree of changes in cytotoxicity between dose points. For example, changes in cytotoxicity between dose points along a dose-response curve may be quantified by a local slope, and the local slopes weighted along the dose-response curve to emphasize cytotoxicity.

For example, aAUC may be calculated as follows.

Step 1: Calculate Cytotoxity Index (CI) for each dose, where CI=Mean_(drug)/Mean_(control).

Step 2: Calculate local slope (S_(d)) at each dose point, for example, as S_(d)=(CI_(d)−CI_(d-1))/Unit of Dose, or S_(d)=(CI_(d-1)−CI_(d))/Unit of Dose.

Step 3: Calculate a slope weight at each dose point, e.g., W_(d)=1−S_(d).

Step 4: Compute aAUC, where aAUC=ΣW_(d) CI_(d), and where, d=1, 2, . . . , 10; aAUC˜(0, 10); And at d=1, then CI_(d-1)=1. Equation 4 is the summary metric of a dose response curve and may used for subsequent regression over reference outcomes.

Usually, the dose-response curves vary dramatically around middle doses, not in lower or higher dose ranges. Thus, the algorithm in some embodiments need only determine the aAUC for a middle dose range, such as for example (where from 8 to 12 doses are experimentally determined, e.g., about 10 doses), the middle 4, 5, 6, or 8 doses are used to calculate aAUC. In this manner, a truncated dose-response curve might be more informative in outcome prediction by eliminating background noise.

The numerical aAUC value (e.g., test value) may then be evaluated for its effect on the patient's cells. For example, a plurality of drugs may be tested, and AUC determined as above for each, to determine whether the patient's cells have a sensitive response, intermediate response, or resistant response to each drug.

In some embodiments, each drug is designated as, for example, sensitive, or resistant, or intermediate, by comparing the aAUC test value to one or more cut-off values for the particular drug (e.g., representing sensitive, resistant, and/or intermediate aAUC scores for that drug). The cut-off values for any particular drug may be set or determined in a variety of ways, for example, by determining the distribution of a clinical outcome within a range of corresponding aAUC reference scores. That is, a number of patient tumor specimens are tested for chemosenstivity/resistance (as described herein) to a particular drug prior to treatment, and aAUC quantified for each specimen. Then after clinical treatment with that drug, aAUC values that correspond to a clinical response (e.g., sensitive) and the absence of significant clinical response (e.g., resistant) are determined. Cut-off values may alternatively be determined from population response rates. For example, where a patient population is known to have a response rate of 30% for the tested drug, the cut-off values may be determined by assigning the top 30% of aAUC scores for that drug as sensitive. Further still, cut-off values may be determined by statistical measures.

In other embodiments, the aAUC scores may be adjusted for drug or drug class. For example, aAUC values for dose response curves may be regressed over a reference scoring algorithm adjusted for test drugs. The reference scoring algorithm may provide a categorical outcome, for example, sensitive (s), intermediate sensitive (i) and resistant (r), as already described. Logistic regression may be used to incorporate the different information, i.e., three outcome categories, into the scoring algorithm. However, regression can be extended to other forms, such as linear or generalized linear regression, depending on reference outcomes. The regression model may be fitted as the following: Logit(Pref)=α+β(aAUC)+γ(drugs), where γ is a covariate vector and the vector can be extended to clinical and genomic features. The score may be calculated as Score=β(aAUC)+γ(drugs). Since the score is a continuous variable, results may be classified into clinically relevant categories, i.e., sensitive (S), intermediate sensitive (I), and resistant (R), based on the distribution of a reference scoring category or maximized sensitivity and specificity relative to the reference.

As stated, the chemoresponse score for cultures derived from patient specimens may provide additional predictive or prognostic value in connection with the gene expression profile analysis.

Alternatively, where applied to immortalized cell line collections or patient-derived cultures, the in vitro chemoresponse assay may be used to supervise or train gene expression signatures. Once gene expression signatures are identified in cultured cells, e.g., by correlating the level of in vitro chemosensitivity with gene expression levels, the resulting gene expression signatures may be independently validated in patient test populations having available gene expression data and corresponding clinical data, including information regarding the treatment regimen and outcome of treatment. This aspect of the invention reduces the length of time and quantity of patient samples needed for identifying and validating such gene expression signatures.

Gene Expression Assay Formats

Gene expression profiles, including patient gene expression profiles and the drug-sensitive and drug-resistant signatures as described herein, may be prepared according to any suitable method for measuring gene expression. That is, the profiles may be prepared using any quantitative or semi-quantitative method for determining RNA transcript levels in samples. Such methods include polymerase-based assays, such as RT-PCR, Taqman™, hybridization-based assays, for example using DNA microarrays or other solid support (e.g., Whole Genome DASL™ Assay, Illumina, Inc.), nucleic acid sequence based amplification (NASBA), flap endonuclease-based assays, as well as direct mRNA capture with branched DNA (QuantiGene™) or Hybrid Capture™ (Digene). The assay format, in addition to determining the gene expression levels for a combination of genes listed in one or more of Tables 1-8, will also allow for the control of, inter alia, intrinsic signal intensity variation between tests. Such controls may include, for example, controls for background signal intensity and/or sample processing, and/or other desirable controls for gene expression quantification across samples. For example, expression levels between samples may be controlled by testing for the expression level of one or more genes that are not differentially expressed between drug-sensitive and drug-resistant cells, or which are generally expressed at similar levels across the population. Such genes may include constitutively expressed genes, many of which are known in the art. Exemplary assay formats for determining gene expression levels, and thus for preparing gene expression profiles and drug-sensitive and drug-resistant signatures are described in this section.

The nucleic acid sample is typically in the form of mRNA or reverse transcribed mRNA (cDNA) isolated from a tumor tissue sample or a derived cultured cell population. In some embodiments, the nucleic acids in the sample may be cloned or amplified, generally in a manner that does not bias the representation of the transcripts within a sample. In some embodiments, it may be preferable to use total RNA or polyA+ RNA as a source without cloning or amplification, to avoid additional processing steps.

As is apparent to one of skill in the art, nucleic acid samples used in the methods of the invention may be prepared by any available method or process. Methods of isolating total mRNA are well known to those of skill in the art. For example, methods of isolation and purification of nucleic acids are described in detail in Chapter 3 of Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Vol. 24, Hybridization With Nucleic Acid Probes: Theory and Nucleic Acid Probes, P. Tijssen, Ed., Elsevier Press, New York, 1993. Such samples include RNA samples, but also include cDNA synthesized from a mRNA sample isolated from a cell or specimen of interest. Such samples also include DNA amplified from the cDNA, and RNA transcribed from the amplified DNA.

In determining a tumor's gene expression profile, or in determining a drug-sensitive or drug-resistant profile in accordance with the invention, a hybridization-based assay may be employed. Nucleic acid hybridization involves contacting a probe and a target sample under conditions where the probe and its complementary target sequence (if present) in the sample can form stable hybrid duplexes through complementary base pairing. The nucleic acids that do not form hybrid duplexes may be washed away leaving the hybridized nucleic acids to be detected, typically through detection of an attached detectable label. It is generally recognized that nucleic acids may be denatured by increasing the temperature or decreasing the salt concentration of the buffer containing the nucleic acids. Under low stringency conditions (e.g., low temperature and/or high salt) hybrid duplexes (e.g., DNA:DNA, RNA:RNA, or RNA:DNA) will form even where the annealed sequences are not perfectly complementary. Thus, specificity of hybridization is reduced at lower stringency. Conversely, at higher stringency (e.g., higher temperature or lower salt) successful hybridization tolerates fewer mismatches. One of skill in the art will appreciate that hybridization conditions may be selected to provide any degree of stringency.

In certain embodiments, hybridization is performed at low stringency, such as 6×SSPET at 37° C. (0.005% Triton X-100), to ensure hybridization, and then subsequent washes are performed at higher stringency (e.g., 1×SSPET at 37° C.) to eliminate mismatched hybrid duplexes. Successive washes may be performed at increasingly higher stringency (e.g., down to as low as 0.25×SSPET at 37° C. to 50° C.) until a desired level of hybridization specificity is obtained. Stringency can also be increased by addition of agents such as formamide. Hybridization specificity may be evaluated by comparison of hybridization to the test probes with hybridization to the various controls that may be present, as described below (e.g., expression level control, normalization control, mismatch controls, etc.).

In general, there is a tradeoff between hybridization specificity (stringency) and signal intensity. Thus, in a preferred embodiment, the wash is performed at the highest stringency that produces consistent results and that provides a signal intensity greater than approximately 10% of the background intensity. The hybridized array may be washed at successively higher stringency solutions and read between each wash. Analysis of the data sets thus produced will reveal a wash stringency above which the hybridization pattern is not appreciably altered and which provides adequate signal for the particular oligonucleotide probes of interest.

The hybridized nucleic acids are typically detected by detecting one or more labels attached to the sample nucleic acids. The labels may be incorporated by any of a number of means well known to those of skill in the art. See WO 99/32660.

Numerous hybridization assay formats are known, and which may be used in accordance with the invention. Such hybridization-based formats include solution-based and solid support-based assay formats. Solid supports containing oligonucleotide probes designed to detect differentially expressed genes (e.g., listed in Tables 1-8) can be filters, polyvinyl chloride dishes, particles, beads, microparticles or silicon or glass based chips, etc. Any solid surface to which oligonucleotides can be bound, either directly or indirectly, either covalently or non-covalently, may be used. Bead-based assays are described, for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,355,431, 6,396,995, and 6,429,027, which are hereby incorporated by reference. Other chip-based assays are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,673,579, 6,733,977, and 6,576,424, which are hereby incorporated by reference.

An exemplary solid support is a high density array or DNA chip, which may contain a particular oligonucleotide probes at predetermined locations on the array. Each predetermined location may contain more than one molecule of the probe, but each molecule within the predetermined location has an identical probe sequence. Such predetermined locations are termed features. Probes corresponding to the genes of Tables 1-8 may be attached to single or multiple solid support structures, e.g., the probes may be attached to a single chip or to multiple chips to comprise a chip set. An exemplary chip format is hgu133a+2 (Affymetrix).

Oligonucleotide probe arrays for determining gene expression can be made and used according to any techniques known in the art (see for example, Lockhart et al (1996), Nat Biotechnol 14:1675-1680; McGall et al. (1996), Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 93:13555-13460). Such probe arrays may contain the oligonucleotide probes necessary for determining a tumor's gene expression profile, or for preparing drug-resistant and drug-sensitive signatures. Thus, such arrays may contain oligonucleotide designed to hybridize to at least 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 30, 50, 70, 100, 200, 300 or more of the genes described herein (e.g., as described in one of Tables 1-10, or as described in any of Tables 1-10). In some embodiments, the array contains probes designed to hybridize to all or nearly all of the genes listed in one or more of Tables 1-10. In still other embodiments, arrays are constructed that contain oligonucleotides designed to detect all or nearly all of the genes in Tables 1-10 on a single solid support substrate, such as a chip or a set of beads. The array, bead set, or probe set may contain, in some embodiments, no more than 3000 probes, no more than 2000 probes, no more than 1000 probes, or no more than 500 probes, so as to embody a custom probe set for determining gene expression signatures in accordance with the invention.

Probes based on the sequences of the genes described herein for preparing expression profiles may be prepared by any suitable method. Oligonucleotide probes, for hybridization-based assays, will be of sufficient length or composition (including nucleotide analogs) to specifically hybridize only to appropriate, complementary nucleic acids (e.g., exactly or substantially complementary RNA transcripts or cDNA). Typically the oligonucleotide probes will be at least about 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 or 25 nucleotides in length. In some cases, longer probes of at least 30, 40, or 50 nucleotides may be desirable. In some embodiments, complementary hybridization between a probe nucleic acid and a target nucleic acid embraces minor mismatches (e.g., one, two, or three mismatches) that can be accommodated by reducing the stringency of the hybridization media to achieve the desired detection of the target polynucleotide sequence. Of course, the probes may be perfect matches with the intended target probe sequence, for example, the probes may each have a probe sequence that is perfectly complementary to a target sequence (e.g., a sequence of a gene listed in Tables 1-10).

A probe is a nucleic acid capable of binding to a target nucleic acid of complementary sequence through one or more types of chemical bonds, usually through complementary base pairing, usually through hydrogen bond formation. A probe may include natural (i.e., A, G, U, C, or T) or modified bases (7-deazaguanosine, inosine, etc.), or locked nucleic acid (LNA). In addition, the nucleotide bases in probes may be joined by a linkage other than a phosphodiester bond, so long as the bond does not interfere with hybridization. Thus, probes may be peptide nucleic acids in which the constituent bases are joined by peptide bonds rather than phosphodiester linkages.

When using hybridization-based assays, in may be necessary to control for background signals. The terms “background” or “background signal intensity” refer to hybridization signals resulting from non-specific binding, or other interactions, between the labeled target nucleic acids and components of the oligonucleotide array (e.g., the oligonucleotide probes, control probes, the array substrate, etc.). Background signals may also be produced by intrinsic fluorescence of the array components themselves. A single background signal can be calculated for the entire array, or a different background signal may be calculated for each location of the array. In an exemplary embodiment, background is calculated as the average hybridization signal intensity for the lowest 5% to 10% of the probes in the array. Alternatively, background may be calculated as the average hybridization signal intensity produced by hybridization to probes that are not complementary to any sequence found in the sample (e.g. probes directed to nucleic acids of the opposite sense or to genes not found in the sample such as bacterial genes where the sample is mammalian nucleic acids). Background can also be calculated as the average signal intensity produced by regions of the array that lack any probes at all. Of course, one of skill in the art will appreciate that hybridization signals may be controlled for background using one or a combination of known approached, including one or a combination of approaches described in this paragraph.

The hybridization-based assay will be generally conducted under conditions in which the probe(s) will hybridize to their intended target subsequence, but with only insubstantial hybridization to other sequences or to other sequences, such that the difference may be identified. Such conditions are sometimes called “stringent conditions.” Stringent conditions are sequence-dependent and can vary under different circumstances. For example, longer probe sequences generally hybridize to perfectly complementary sequences (over less than fully complementary sequences) at higher temperatures. Generally, stringent conditions may be selected to be about 5° C. lower than the thermal melting point (Tm) for the specific sequence at a defined ionic strength and pH. Exemplary stringent conditions may include those in which the salt concentration is at least about 0.01 to 1.0 M Na⁺ ion concentration (or other salts) at pH 7.0 to 8.3 and the temperature is at least about 30° C. for short probes (e.g., 10 to 50 nucleotides). Desired hybridization conditions may also be achieved with the addition of agents such as formamide or tetramethyl ammonium chloride (TMAC).

When using an array, one of skill in the art will appreciate that an enormous number of array designs are suitable for the practice of this invention. The array will typically include a number of test probes that specifically hybridize to the sequences of interest. That is, the array will include probes designed to hybridize to any region of the genes listed in Tables 1-8. In instances where the gene reference in the Tables is an EST, probes may be designed from that sequence or from other regions of the corresponding full-length transcript that may be available in any of the public sequence databases, such as those herein described. See WO 99/32660 for methods of producing probes for a given gene or genes. In addition, software is commercially available for designing specific probe sequences. Typically, the array will also include one or more control probes, such as probes specific for a constitutively expressed gene, thereby allowing data from different hybridizations to be normalized or controlled.

The hybridization-based assays may include, in addition to “test probes” (e.g., that bind the target sequences of interest, which are listed in Tables 1-10), the assay may also test for hybridization to one or a combination of control probes. Exemplary control probes include: normalization controls, expression level controls, and mismatch controls. For example, when determining the levels of gene expression in patient or control samples, the expression values may be normalized to control between samples. That is, the levels of gene expression in each sample may be normalized by determining the level of expression of at least one constitutively expressed gene in each sample. In accordance with the invention, the constitutively expressed gene is generally not differentially expressed in drug-sensitive versus drug-resistant samples.

Other useful controls are normalization controls, for example, using probes designed to be complementary to a labeled reference oligonucleotide added to the nucleic acid sample to be assayed. The signals obtained from the normalization controls after hybridization provide a control for variations in hybridization conditions, label intensity, “reading” efficiency and other factors that may cause the signal of a perfect hybridization to vary between arrays. In one embodiment, signals (e.g., fluorescence intensity) read from all other probes in the array are divided by the signal (e.g., fluorescence intensity) from the control probes thereby normalizing the measurements. Exemplary normalization probes are selected to reflect the average length of the other probes (e.g., test probes) present in the array, however, they may be selected to cover a range of lengths. The normalization control(s) may also be selected to reflect the (average) base composition of the other probes in the array. In some embodiments, the assay employs one or a few normalization probes, and they are selected such that they hybridize well (i.e., no secondary structure) and do not hybridize to any potential targets.

The hybridization-based assay may employ expression level controls, for example, probes that hybridize specifically with constitutively expressed genes in the biological sample. Virtually any constitutively expressed gene provides a suitable target for expression level controls. Typically expression level control probes have sequences complementary to subsequences of constitutively expressed “housekeeping genes” including, but not limited to the actin gene, the transferrin receptor gene, the GAPDH gene, and the like.

The hybridization-based assay may also employ mismatch controls for the target sequences, and/or for expression level controls or for normalization controls. Mismatch controls are probes designed to be identical to their corresponding test or control probes, except for the presence of one or more mismatched bases. A mismatched base is a base selected so that it is not complementary to the corresponding base in the target sequence to which the probe would otherwise specifically hybridize. One or more mismatches are selected such that under appropriate hybridization conditions (e.g., stringent conditions) the test or control probe would be expected to hybridize with its target sequence, but the mismatch probe would not hybridize (or would hybridize to a significantly lesser extent). Preferred mismatch probes contain a central mismatch. Thus, for example, where a probe is a 20-mer, a corresponding mismatch probe will have the identical sequence except for a single base mismatch (e.g., substituting a G, a C or a T for an A) at any of positions 6 through 14 (the central mismatch).

Mismatch probes thus provide a control for non-specific binding or cross hybridization to a nucleic acid in the sample other than the target to which the probe is directed. For example, if the target is present, the perfect match probes should provide a more intense signal than the mismatch probes. The difference in intensity between the perfect match and the mismatch probe helps to provide a good measure of the concentration of the hybridized material.

Alternatively, the invention may employ reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), which is a sensitive method for the detection of mRNA, including low abundant mRNAs present in clinical samples. The application of fluorescence techniques to RT-PCR combined with suitable instrumentation has led to quantitative RT-PCR methods that combine amplification, detection and quantification in a closed system. Two commonly used quantitative RT-PCR techniques are the Taqman RT-PCR assay (ABI, Foster City, USA) and the Lightcycler assay (Roche, USA).

Thus, in one embodiment of the present invention, the preparation of patient gene expression profiles or the preparation of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant profiles comprises conducting real-time quantitative PCR (TaqMan) with sample-derived RNA and control RNA. Holland, et al., PNAS 88:7276-7280 (1991) describe an assay known as a Taqman assay. The 5′ to 3′ exonuclease activity of Taq polymerase is employed in a polymerase chain reaction product detection system to generate a specific detectable signal concomitantly with amplification. An oligonucleotide probe, non-extendable at the 3′ end, labeled at the 5′ end, and designed to hybridize within the target sequence, is introduced into the polymerase chain reaction assay. Annealing of the probe to one of the polymerase chain reaction product strands during the course of amplification generates a substrate suitable for exonuclease activity. During amplification, the 5′ to 3′ exonuclease activity of Taq polymerase degrades the probe into smaller fragments that can be differentiated from undegraded probe. A version of this assay is also described in Gelfand et al., in U.S. Pat. No. 5,210,015, which is hereby incorporated by reference.

Further, U.S. Pat. No. 5,491,063 to Fisher, et al., which is hereby incorporated by reference, provides a Taqman-type assay. The method of Fisher et al. provides a reaction that results in the cleavage of single-stranded oligonucleotide probes labeled with a light-emitting label wherein the reaction is carried out in the presence of a DNA binding compound that interacts with the label to modify the light emission of the label. The method of Fisher uses the change in light emission of the labeled probe that results from degradation of the probe.

The TaqMan detection assays offer certain advantages. First, the methodology makes possible the handling of large numbers of samples efficiently and without cross-contamination and is therefore adaptable for robotic sampling. As a result, large numbers of test samples can be processed in a very short period of time using the TaqMan assay. Another advantage of the TaqMan system is the potential for multiplexing. Since different fluorescent reporter dyes can be used to construct probes, the expression of several different genes associated with drug sensitivity or resistance may be assayed in the same PCR reaction, thereby reducing the labor costs that would be incurred if each of the tests were performed individually. Thus, the TaqMan assay format is preferred where the patient's gene expression profile, and the corresponding drug-sensitive and drug-resistance profiles comprise the expression levels of about 20 of fewer, or about 10 or fewer, or about 7 of fewer, or about 5 genes (e.g., genes listed in one or more of Tables 1-10).

Alternatively, the assay format may employ the methodologies described in Direct Multiplexed Measurement of Gene Expression with Color-Coded Probe Pairs, Nature Biotechnology (Mar. 7, 2008), which describes the nCounter™ Analysis System (nanoString Technologies). This system captures and counts individual mRNA transcripts by a molecular bar-coding technology, and is commercialized by Nanostring.

In other embodiments, the invention employs detection and quantification of RNA levels in real-time using nucleic acid sequence based amplification (NASBA) combined with molecular beacon detection molecules. NASBA is described for example, in Compton J., Nucleic acid sequence-based amplification, Nature 1991; 350(6313):91-2. NASBA is a singe-step isothermal RNA-specific amplification method. Generally, the method involves the following steps: RNA template is provided to a reaction mixture, where the first primer attaches to its complementary site at the 3′ end of the template; reverse transcriptase synthesizes the opposite, complementary DNA strand; RNAse H destroys the RNA template (RNAse H only destroys RNA in RNA-DNA hybrids, but not single-stranded RNA); the second primer attaches to the 3′ end of the DNA strand, and reverse transcriptase synthesizes the second strand of DNA; and T7 RNA polymerase binds double-stranded DNA and produces a complementary RNA strand which can be used again in step 1, such that the reaction is cyclic.

In yet other embodiments, the assay format is a flap endonuclease-based format, such as the Invader™ assay (Third Wave Technologies). In the case of using the invader method, an invader probe containing a sequence specific to the region 3′ to a target site, and a primary probe containing a sequence specific to the region 5′ to the target site of a template and an unrelated flap sequence, are prepared. Cleavase is then allowed to act in the presence of these probes, the target molecule, as well as a FRET probe containing a sequence complementary to the flap sequence and an auto-complementary sequence that is labeled with both a fluorescent dye and a quencher. When the primary probe hybridizes with the template, the 3′ end of the invader probe penetrates the target site, and this structure is cleaved by the Cleavase resulting in dissociation of the flap. The flap binds to the FRET probe and the fluorescent dye portion is cleaved by the Cleavase resulting in emission of fluorescence.

In yet other embodiments, the assay format employs direct mRNA capture with branched DNA (QuantiGene™ Panomics) or Hybrid Capture™ (Digene).

The design of appropriate probes for hybridizing to a particular target nucleic acid, and as configured for any appropriate nucleic acid detection assay, is well known.

Computer System

In another aspect, the invention is a computer system that contains a database, on a computer-readable medium, of gene expression values indicative of a tumor's drug-resistance and/or drug-sensitivity. These gene expression values are determined (as already described) in established cell lines, cell cultures established from patient samples, or directly from patient specimens, and for genes selected from one or more of Tables 1-7. The database may include, for each gene, sensitive and resistant gene expression levels, thresholds, or Mean values, as well as various statistical measures, including measures of value dispersion (e.g., Standard Variation), fold change (e.g., between sensitive and resistant samples), and statistical significance (statistical association with drug sensitivity or resistance). Generally, signatures may be assembled based upon parameters to be selected and input by a user, with these parameters including of cancer or tumor type, histology, and/or candidate chemotherapeutic agents or combinations.

In certain embodiments, the database contains mean or median gene expression values for at least about 5, 7, 10, 20, 40, 50, or 100 genes selected from any one, or a combination of, Tables 1-10. In some embodiments, the database may contain mean or median gene expression values for more than about 100 genes, or about 300 genes, or about 350 genes selected from Tables 1-10. In one embodiment, the database contains mean gene expression values for all or substantially all the genes listed in Tables 1-10.

The computer system of the invention may be programmed to compare, score, or classify (e.g., in response to user inputs) a gene expression profile against a drug-sensitive gene expression signature and/or a drug-resistant gene expression signature stored and/or generated from the database, to determine whether the gene expression profile is itself a drug sensitive or drug-resistant profile. For example, the computer system may be programmed to perform any of the known classification schemes for classifying gene expression profiles. Various classification schemes are known for classifying samples, and these include, without limitation: Principal Components Analysis, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines, Nearest Neighbors, Decision Trees, Logistic, Artificial Neural Networks, and Rule-based schemes. The computer system may employ a classification algorithm or “class predictor” as described in R. Simon, Diagnostic and prognostic prediction using gene expression profiles in high-dimensional microarray data, British Journal of Cancer (2003) 89, 1599-1604, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

The computer system of the invention may comprise a user interface, allowing a user to input gene expression values for comparison to a drug-sensitive and/or drug-resistant gene expression profile. The patient's gene expression values may be input from a location remote from the database.

The computer system may further comprise a display, for presenting and/or displaying a result, such as a signature assembled from the database, or the result of a comparison (or classification) between input gene expression values and a drug-sensitive and drug-resistant signatures. Such results may further be provided in any form (e.g., as a printable or printed report).

The computer system of the invention may further comprise relational databases containing sequence information, for instance, for the genes of Tables 1-10. For example, the database may contain information associated with a given gene, cell line, or patient sample used for preparing gene signatures, such as descriptive information about the gene associated with the sequence information, or descriptive information concerning the clinical status of the patient (e.g., treatment regimen and outcome). The database may be designed to include different parts, for instance a sequence database and a gene expression database. Methods for the configuration and construction of such databases and computer-readable media to which such databases are saved are widely available, for instance, see U.S. Pat. No. 5,953,727, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

The databases of the invention may be linked to an outside or external database (e.g., on the world wide web) such as GenBank (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez.index.html); KEGG (genome.ad.jp/kegg); SPAD (grt.kuyshu-u.ac.jp/spad/index.html); HUGO (gene.ucl.ac.uk/hugo); Swiss-Prot (expasy.ch.sprot); Prosite (expasy.ch/tools/scnpsitl.html); OMIM (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim); and GDB (gdb.org). In certain embodiments, the external database is GenBank and the associated databases maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov).

Any appropriate computer platform, user interface, etc. may be used to perform the necessary comparisons between sequence information, gene expression information (e.g., gene expression profiles) and any other information in the database or information provided as an input. For example, a large number of computer workstations are available from a variety of manufacturers, such has those available from Silicon Graphics. Client/server environments, database servers and networks are also widely available and appropriate platforms for the databases described herein.

The databases of the invention may be used to produce, among other things, electronic Northerns that allow the user to determine the samples in which a given gene is expressed and to allow determination of the abundance or expression level of the given gene.

Diagnostic Kits

The invention further provides a kit or probe array containing nucleic acid primers and/or probes for determining the level of expression in a patient tumor specimen or cell culture of a plurality of genes listed in Tables 1-10. The probe array may contain 3000 probes or less, 2000 probes or less, 1000 probes or less, 500 probes or less, so as to embody a custom set for preparing gene expression profiles described herein. In some embodiments, the kit may consist essentially of primers and/or probes related to evaluating drug-sensitivity/resistant in a sample, and primers and/or probes related to necessary or meaningful assay controls (such as expression level controls and normalization controls, as described herein under “Gene Expression Assay Formats”). The kit for evaluating drug-sensitivity/resistance may comprise nucleic acid probes and/or primers designed to detect the expression level of ten or more genes associated with drug sensitivity/resistance, such as the genes listed in Tables 1-10. The kit may include a set of probes and/or primers designed to detect or quantify the expression levels of at least 5, 7, 10, or 20 genes listed in one of Tables 1-10. The primers and/or probes may be designed to detect gene expression levels in accordance with any assay format, including those described herein under the heading “Assay Format.” Exemplary assay formats include polymerase-based assays, such as RT-PCR, Taqman™, hybridization-based assays, for example using DNA microarrays or other solid support, nucleic acid sequence based amplification (NASBA), flap endonuclease-based assays. The kit need not employ a DNA microarray or other high density detection format.

In accordance with this aspect, the probes and primers may comprise antisense nucleic acids or oligonucleotides that are wholly or partially complementary to the diagnostic targets described herein (e.g., Tables 1-10). The probes and primers will be designed to detect the particular diagnostic target via an available nucleic acid detection assay format, which are well known in the art. The kits of the invention may comprise probes and/or primers designed to detect the diagnostic targets via detection methods that include amplification, endonuclease cleavage, and hybridization.

EXAMPLES Example 1 Identifying and Validation Gene Expression Signatures

Cancer cell lines (breast cancer) from a Berkeley Labs collection (Hoeflich et al: In vivo Antitumor Activity of MEK and Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Inhibitors in Basal-Like Breast Cancer Models. Clinical Cancer Research 2009, 15(14):4649-4664.) were tested for their sensitivity in vitro to the combinations TFAC, EC, FEC, AC, ACT, TFEC, and DX. TFAC is the combination of paclitaxel, fluorouracil, doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide. EC is the combination of epirubicin and cyclophosphamide. FEC is the combination of fluorouracil, epirubicin and cyclophosphamide. AC is the combination of doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide. ACT is the combination of doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide and docetaxel. TFEC is the combination of paclitaxel, fluorouracil, epirubicin and cyclophosphamide. DX is the combination of docetaxel and fluorouracil. In vitro chemosensitivity was determined using the ChemoFx™ assay (Precision Therapeutics, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa.).

The AUC scores for all cell lines across the four drug combinations were as follows: smaller AUC corresponds to higher sensitivity to drug.

TFAC EC FEC ACT AC TFEC DX AU565 4.39 4.27 3.97 4.77 4.71 3.63 4.9 BT20 6.68 5.82 6.1 6 7.43 4.8 7.77 BT474 6.56 7.1 6.76 7.55 7.25 6.73 NA BT483 9.09 8.12 7.75 NA 8.37 NA NA BT549 4.75 3.88 3.95 4.75 4.68 4.15 6.34 CAL120 4.4 3.39 4.01 4.47 4.14 3.66 6.8 CAL51 4.1 3.81 4.25 4.85 4.88 2.8 7.37 CAL851 5.14 4 4.29 5.05 4.62 4.28 6.13 CAMA1 6.79 5.66 5.54 6.06 NA NA 7.8 EFM19 8.84 7.1 8 9.52 8.54 6.99 8.5 EFM192A 7.25 5.23 6.07 7.82 7.38 4.85 7.13 EVSAT 4.3 3.2 3.82 4.33 4.2 3.41 4.84 HCC1143 5.41 4.95 5.08 5.69 5.6 5.07 6.94 HCC1187 4.06 4.15 4.07 NA 4.33 NA NA HCC1395 4.37 3.9 5.09 NA 4.85 NA 7.1 HCC1419 8.94 7.11 NA 8.31 8.59 6.83 NA HCC1428 8.19 7.29 7.31 7.6 8.27 6.71 9.75 HCC1500 7.52 7.42 7.3 8.4 8.73 7.27 NA HCC1569 5.68 NA NA 5.76 NA 5.01 NA HCC1806 3.76 2.69 NA 3.85 3.75 2.73 NA HCC1937 5.74 5.04 5.03 6.21 5.83 4.49 7.46 HCC1954 4.45 3.82 3.54 4.47 4.7 3.52 NA HCC202 NA NA NA 8.28 NA 6.81 8.87 HCC38 3.73 3.51 3.59 4.07 4.46 3.82 5.58 HDQP1 5.11 4.6 4.97 5.44 5.52 4.11 4.9 HS578T 3.37 3.33 2.81 3.59 3.47 NA 5.09 JIMT1 4.45 4.2 4.59 4.91 5.04 4.11 4.66 KPL1 4.02 3.75 4.39 4.98 5.04 2.83 4.05 MCF10A 4.55 4.18 4.38 4.67 4.84 4.07 5.93 MCF7 5.81 5.36 5.19 5.72 6.31 4.76 7.23 MDAMB134VI 5.3 5.23 5.11 5.42 5.63 5.06 7.5 MDAMB157 NA 3.57 4.36 4.39 5.15 3.91 NA MDAMB175VII 7.91 7.09 7.8 8.14 9.33 7.94 NA MDAMB231 3.57 3.25 3.36 3.97 3.32 3.64 6.37 MDAMB361 8.2 8.43 7.94 8.92 9.14 7.73 NA MDAMB415 7.2 7.33 7.15 4.83 8.67 4.45 6.72 MDAMB436 5.32 4.9 4.95 5.05 5.31 4.68 7.12 MDAM8453 6.64 6.77 6.7 7.63 8.24 6.27 9.94 MDAMB468 3.58 3.08 3.08 3.37 3.52 3.18 5.78 MFM223 4.66 4.2 4.63 5.11 5.18 3.11 5.5 SKBR3 4.07 3.65 3.4 NA 4.31 2.43 6.12 SW527 NA 2.92 4.18 3.73 4.42 3.01 6.94 T47D 3.86 3.73 3.53 4.6 4.11 3.79 8.07 UACC812 3.89 3.05 2.97 3.68 3.93 2.71 6.68 ZR751 6.64 6.1 5.64 7.63 7.12 6.97 NA ZR7530 6.4 5.49 5 NA 5.79 6.43 8

Sensitive and resistant cells were designated as follows:

Range of Sensitive cells Range of Resistant cells TFAC 3.37-4.39 6.64-9.09 EC 2.69-3.81 5.66-8.43 ACT 3.37-4.77 6.06-9.52 AC 3.32-4.68 7.12-9.33 FEC 2.81-4.18 5.54-8.00 TFEC 2.43-3.66 5.06-7.94 DX 4.05-6.13 7.37-9.94

Tables 1-8 each provide the mean gene expression values for sensitive cell lines, and the mean gene expression values for resistant cell lines, for each combination of therapeutic agents. The Tables also provide the fold change from sensitive to resistant. For example, where x is the mean expression score for sensitive cell lines for a particular gene, and y is the mean expression score for resistant cell lines for that gene, fold change is represented by mean X/mean Y.

The procedure for identifying gene expression signatures is shown diagrammatically in FIG. 1.

The gene expression signatures resulting from the above analysis were validated in patient populations by comparing publicly available patient tumor gene expression data (based on hgu133a microarray platform) with the corresponding outcome of treatment with TFAC, EC and FAC. The validation sets were as follows.

133 neoadjuvant breast cancer patients, treated with TFAC, and outcomes evaluated for pCR (“Pusztai set”). Hess, K R, Anderson, K, Symmans, W F, Valero, V, Ibrahim, N, Mejia, J A, Booser, D, Theriault, R L, Buzdar, A U, Dempsey, P J, Rouzier, R, Sneige, N, Ross, J S, Vidaurre, T, Gómez, H L, Hortobagyi, G N, Pusztai, L (2006). Pharmacogenomic predictor of sensitivity to preoperative chemotherapy with paclitaxel and fluorouracil, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide in breast cancer. J. Clin. Oncol., 24, 26:4236-44.

37 neoadjuvant breast cancer patients, treated with EC, and outcomes evaluated for pCR (“Bertheau set”). Bertheau, P, Turpin, E, Rickman, D S, Espié, M, de Reyniés, A, Feugeas, J P, Plassa, L F, Soliman, H, Varna, M, de Roquancourt, A, Lehmann-Che, J, Beuzard, Y, Marty, M, Misset, J L, Janin, A, de Thé, H (2007). Exquisite sensitivity of TP53 mutant and basal breast cancers to a dose-dense epirubicin-cyclophosphamide regimen. PLoS Med., 4, 3:e90.

87 neoadjuvant breast cancer patients, treated with FAC, and outcomes evaluated for pCR (“Tabchy.FAC”). Tabchy, A, Valero, V, Vidaurre, T, Lluch, A, Gomez, H, Martin, M, Qi, Y, Barajas-Figueroa, L, Souchon, E, Coutant, C, Doimi, F, Ibrahim, N, Gong, Y, Hortobagyi, G, Hess, K, Symmans, W, Pusztai, L (2010). Evaluation of a 30-gene paclitaxel, fluorouracil, doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide chemotherapy response predictor in a multicenter randomized trial in breast cancer, Clinical Cancer Research, 16, 5351

The data sets for validation are summarized as follows:

no. no. patients patients Platform Drug Outcome pCR non-pCR Pusztai Hgu133a TFAC pCR 34 (19%) 98 Bertheau Hgu133a EC pCR  9 (25.7%) 26 Tabchy.FAC Hgu133a FAC pCR  7 (8.0%) 80

Patient samples were classified as resistant and/or sensitive to the chemotherapeutic agent combinations by scoring the publicly available gene expression data against the identified gene signatures, thereby obtaining an outcome prediction. Bair, E, Tibshirani, R (2004). Semi-supervised methods to predict patient survival from gene expression data. PLoS Biol., 2, 4:E108. Specifically, standard regression coefficients for each gene in the training set were calculated; genes were selected having a coefficient larger than the threshold, where the threshold is estimated by cross-validation in the training set; a reduced data matrix on these selected genes was formed; the first principal components based on the reduced data matrix was calculated; and the first principal component was used in a regression model to predict the patient's outcome. The accuracy of the classification or prediction was validated by comparing the prediction with the actual outcome of treatment.

The accuracy of the gene signatures were as follows.

The accuracy of a 350-gene signature from Table 1 for predicting pCR in the Pusztai data set was determined, and is shown in FIG. 2. The results are shown as a receiver operator curve (ROC) as shown in the left panel. The right panel shows that the gene expression signature of Table 1 is stable over a large range of increasing gene number, from less than about 10 to over 1000 genes (the top 350 genes are listed in Table 1).

The accuracy of a 350-gene signature from Table 2 for predicting pCR in the Bertheau data set was determined, and is shown in FIG. 3. The results are shown as a receiver operator curve (ROC) as shown in the left panel. The right panel shows that the gene expression signature of Table 2 is stable over a large range of increasing gene number, from less than about 10 to over 1000 genes (the top 350 genes are listed in Table 2).

The accuracy of a 350-gene signature from Table 3 for predicting pCR in the Tabchy-FAC data set was determined, and is shown in FIG. 4. The results are shown as a receiver operator curve (ROC) as shown in the left panel. The right panel shows that the gene expression signature of Table 3 is stable over a large range of increasing gene number, from less than about 10 to over 1000 genes (the top 350 genes are listed in Table 3).

TABLE 1 TFAC probeID Gene.Symbol mean_sens mean_resis fold.change 177_at PLD1 187.67 94.93 1.98 200659_s_at PHB 1466.67 3425.67 0.43 200755_s_at CALU 3940.76 1745.37 2.26 200757_s_at CALU 6556.95 3294.48 1.99 200864_s_at RAB11A 2147.06 3276.50 0.66 200894_s_at FKBP4 2455.50 5230.35 0.47 200895_s_at FKBP4 5091.49 10247.97 0.50 200905_x_at HLA-E 3189.65 2029.02 1.57 200931_s_at VCL 6847.25 3793.12 1.81 201005_at CD9 7842.90 15376.27 0.51 201329_s_at ETS2 514.03 212.47 2.42 201440_at DDX23 1622.15 2267.53 0.72 201467_s_at NQO1 3804.59 8350.48 0.46 201468_s_at NQO1 5458.85 13385.40 0.41 201484_at SUPT4H1 1143.42 1794.74 0.64 201494_at PRCP 2638.73 1937.80 1.36 201552_at LAMP1 6211.28 8692.23 0.71 201582_at SEC23B 773.20 1282.01 0.60 201631_s_at IER3 11146.28 5666.34 1.97 201657_at ARL1 1140.58 2073.82 0.55 201658_at ARL1 1443.46 2940.08 0.49 201733_at CLCN3 456.10 887.11 0.51 201734_at CLCN3 1790.03 3037.18 0.59 201764_at TMEM106C 3642.59 5476.92 0.67 201834_at PRKAB1 436.03 734.29 0.59 201886_at DCAF11 1288.41 1699.15 0.76 201911_s_at FARP1 922.21 1761.78 0.52 201968_s_at PGM1 4901.51 1735.81 2.82 202076_at BIRC2 4028.18 2176.31 1.85 202132_at WWTR1 799.45 267.10 2.99 202133_at WWTR1 3013.74 966.24 3.12 202134_s_at WWTR1 1082.15 354.31 3.05 202187_s_at PPP2R5A 1461.19 2245.91 0.65 202204_s_at AMFR 701.23 1288.11 0.54 202321_at GGPS1 568.06 894.13 0.64 202381_at ADAM9 5335.71 3215.14 1.66 202449_s_at RXRA 2554.76 4531.69 0.56 202558_s_at HSPA13 1846.76 902.91 2.05 202613_at CTPS 2578.65 1576.45 1.64 202623_at EAPP 1923.82 2618.60 0.73 202636_at RNF103 2353.81 4327.87 0.54 202684_s_at RNMT 331.61 158.93 2.09 202704_at TOB1 5485.49 11466.59 0.48 202708_s_at HIST2H2BE 731.53 2409.58 0.30 202727_s_at IFNGR1 3118.80 1712.98 1.82 202731_at PDCD4 1932.28 4638.61 0.42 202743_at PIK3R3 2161.80 4537.22 0.48 202870_s_at CDC20 5239.00 2706.58 1.94 202900_s_at NUP88 2279.47 1394.15 1.64 202908_at WFS1 1040.38 2069.40 0.50 202937_x_at RRP7A 1259.84 692.48 1.82 202955_s_at ARFGEF1 983.01 1455.10 0.68 203009_at BCAM 160.64 302.50 0.53 203045_at NINJ1 1384.50 2192.21 0.63 203123_s_at SLC11A2 1171.75 1371.68 0.85 203212_s_at MTMR2 567.81 342.61 1.66 203282_at GBE1 3538.89 1289.35 2.74 203320_at SH2B3 529.38 200.44 2.64 203350_at AP1G1 1531.81 2493.49 0.61 203370_s_at PDLIM7 793.88 374.92 2.12 203491_s_at CEP57 707.95 484.60 1.46 203492_x_at CEP57 1278.45 806.81 1.58 203712_at KIAA0020 1873.69 1152.29 1.63 203754_s_at BRF1 189.95 405.15 0.47 203764_at DLGAP5 3193.93 1946.80 1.64 203796_s_at BCL7A 176.38 342.06 0.52 203825_at BRD3 2296.66 4024.69 0.57 203831_at R3HDM2 1132.41 1681.95 0.67 203870_at USP46 633.03 1134.69 0.56 203968_s_at CDC6 3602.75 1323.52 2.72 204088_at P2RX4 692.84 1469.26 0.47 204162_at NDC80 1890.01 1043.42 1.81 204182_s_at ZBTB43 228.96 419.64 0.55 204194_at BACH1 869.97 420.19 2.07 204287_at SYNGR1 300.64 534.65 0.56 204365_s_at REEP1 243.73 800.06 0.30 204485_s_at TOM1L1 1726.56 3784.39 0.46 204613_at PLCG2 318.58 178.98 1.78 204906_at RPS6KA2 582.40 291.63 2.00 204934_s_at HPN 174.10 341.36 0.51 204958_at PLK3 213.98 128.76 1.66 204975_at EMP2 2974.31 5770.62 0.52 204977_at DDX10 1850.57 984.79 1.88 205005_s_at NMT2 721.99 287.62 2.51 205006_s_at NMT2 423.46 164.50 2.57 205074_at SLC22A5 1059.54 2090.21 0.51 205126_at VRK2 1386.52 909.22 1.52 205173_x_at CD58 2192.12 1216.21 1.80 205203_at PLD1 314.70 164.62 1.91 205251_at PER2 961.51 1448.10 0.66 205260_s_at ACYP1 1281.13 650.92 1.97 205443_at SNAPC1 1188.55 589.60 2.02 205574_x_at BMP1 433.49 173.02 2.51 205594_at ZNF652 1176.87 3392.50 0.35 205607_s_at SCYL3 411.46 741.90 0.55 205796_at TCP11L1 400.36 189.94 2.11 205996_s_at AK2 1030.93 576.28 1.79 206076_at LRRC23 128.78 282.87 0.46 206127_at ELK3 147.42 79.04 1.87 206194_at HOXC4 439.74 813.52 0.54 206272_at RAB4A /// SPHAR 638.38 1110.62 0.57 206275_s_at MICAL2 201.78 93.28 2.16 206412_at FER 332.84 167.37 1.99 206491_s_at NAPA 2035.95 3615.41 0.56 206527_at ABAT 283.59 546.90 0.52 206653_at POLR3G 257.09 141.78 1.81 206745_at HOXC11 509.13 1291.25 0.39 206752_s_at DFFB 211.37 139.74 1.51 206870_at PPARA 158.93 78.49 2.02 207081_s_at PI4KA 1275.20 1940.98 0.66 207181_s_at CASP7 1016.47 1545.01 0.66 207300_s_at F7 150.28 337.80 0.44 207809_s_at ATP6AP1 7204.46 12230.18 0.59 207821_s_at PTK2 2063.51 3190.04 0.65 208002_s_at ACOT7 3520.85 2322.02 1.52 208033_s_at ZFHX3 227.64 428.92 0.53 208180_s_at HIST1H4H 390.45 1369.19 0.29 208270_s_at RNPEP 4900.79 6517.90 0.75 208296_x_at TNFAIP8 917.61 654.27 1.40 208309_s_at MALT1 675.93 377.30 1.79 208490_x_at HIST1H2BF 1035.84 1611.08 0.64 208636_at ACTN1 9503.45 5275.96 1.80 208637_x_at ACTN1 5298.19 2307.53 2.30 208740_at SAP18 953.58 1438.74 0.66 208741_at SAP18 394.50 890.14 0.44 208774_at CSNK1D 2123.12 2805.89 0.76 208817_at COMT 3285.04 5606.72 0.59 208818_s_at COMT 7961.24 12486.53 0.64 208820_at PTK2 3028.16 5085.74 0.60 208837_at TMED3 3047.22 4431.02 0.69 208873_s_at REEP5 3612.35 7045.58 0.51 208886_at H1F0 4105.26 5542.52 0.74 208906_at BSCL2 1264.64 2630.16 0.48 208921_s_at SRI 6405.51 2617.12 2.45 208927_at SPOP 1534.51 2859.46 0.54 208931_s_at ILF3 2640.57 1177.85 2.24 208935_s_at LGALS8 583.14 1456.29 0.40 208938_at PRCC 1537.19 2152.79 0.71 208944_at TGFBR2 1184.42 244.14 4.85 208999_at SEPT8 1844.99 2907.79 0.63 209050_s_at RALGDS 793.09 1245.47 0.64 209051_s_at RALGDS 481.01 683.99 0.70 209110_s_at RGL2 2325.00 3387.55 0.69 209112_at CDKN1B 3097.17 5596.92 0.55 209163_at CYB561 3283.34 5566.65 0.59 209164_s_at CYB561 1872.96 3258.12 0.57 209222_s_at OSBPL2 1287.25 2084.15 0.62 209262_s_at NR2F6 2376.60 4020.34 0.59 209333_at ULK1 404.79 743.23 0.54 209337_at PSIP1 2162.53 1541.30 1.40 209339_at SIAH2 1749.38 3882.41 0.45 209380_s_at ABCC5 1654.06 2196.55 0.75 209431_s_at PATZ1 579.17 1037.47 0.56 209494_s_at PATZ1 839.60 2062.89 0.41 209572_s_at EED 2637.72 1867.30 1.41 209623_at MCCC2 3564.77 5683.21 0.63 209624_s_at MCCC2 1473.36 2534.41 0.58 209642_at BUB1 1716.60 1208.45 1.42 209645_s_at ALDH1B1 434.58 262.00 1.66 209667_at CES2 939.95 1759.68 0.53 209681_at SLC19A2 896.31 1717.23 0.52 209782_s_at DBP 449.32 793.12 0.57 209850_s_at CDC42EP2 506.67 264.31 1.92 209862_s_at CEP57 924.56 579.19 1.60 209865_at SLC35A3 701.90 1319.52 0.53 209935_at ATP2C1 655.83 331.96 1.98 210005_at GART 725.01 384.71 1.88 210010_s_at SLC25A1 3472.64 4783.11 0.73 210018_x_at MALT1 645.81 395.46 1.63 210075_at 2-Mar 428.48 620.19 0.69 210183_x_at PNN 10518.70 14923.43 0.70 210191_s_at PHTF1 540.17 307.79 1.75 210260_s_at TNFAIP8 784.12 497.47 1.58 210719_s_at HMG20B 2110.26 2799.30 0.75 210720_s_at NECAB3 862.00 1203.80 0.72 210731_s_at LGALS8 219.17 382.40 0.57 210740_s_at ITPK1 2060.69 3123.27 0.66 210816_s_at CYB561 605.72 1042.62 0.58 210817_s_at CALCOCO2 2699.66 4436.21 0.61 210958_s_at MAST4 188.77 451.26 0.42 211051_s_at EXTL3 256.22 142.05 1.80 211084_x_at PRKD3 752.79 299.57 2.51 211113_s_at ABCG1 267.37 599.25 0.45 211160_x_at ACTN1 4181.94 1487.78 2.81 211392_s_at PATZ1 530.74 1093.53 0.49 211416_x_at GGTLC1 355.29 614.72 0.58 211519_s_at KIF2C 1768.91 1070.79 1.65 211565_at SH3GL3 94.02 171.03 0.55 211574_s_at CD46 2171.48 3072.83 0.71 211744_s_at CD58 1340.04 780.50 1.72 211919_s_at CXCR4 302.64 1037.64 0.29 211967_at TMEM123 7896.58 4481.38 1.76 212046_x_at MAPK3 849.57 2275.92 0.37 212057_at KIAA0182 3017.15 5148.94 0.59 212071_s_at SPTBN1 6804.63 4133.43 1.65 212114_at ATXN7L3B 2602.35 3724.38 0.70 212155_at RNF187 3638.43 5782.28 0.63 212174_at AK2 1534.16 774.47 1.98 212202_s_at TMEM87A 1493.36 2362.58 0.63 212246_at MCFD2 1709.28 763.15 2.24 212262_at QKI 1285.66 596.41 2.16 212263_at QKI 1539.68 832.60 1.85 212332_at RBL2 379.13 1197.40 0.32 212367_at FEM1B 689.05 1313.19 0.52 212398_at RDX 2214.12 1215.57 1.82 212400_at FAM102A 1439.81 3594.33 0.40 212441_at KIAA0232 1234.15 2661.03 0.46 212442_s_at LASS6 2225.61 5189.17 0.43 212446_s_at LASS6 1413.02 3320.84 0.43 212462_at MYST4 1076.19 1960.29 0.55 212473_s_at MICAL2 2516.31 639.26 3.94 212506_at PICALM 4275.46 2877.52 1.49 212508_at MOAP1 1900.18 3073.83 0.62 212511_at PICALM 725.74 560.56 1.29 212568_s_at DLAT 3196.11 2006.91 1.59 212569_at SMCHD1 834.31 511.97 1.63 212577_at SMCHD1 1206.36 671.45 1.80 212593_s_at PDCD4 3277.77 8409.78 0.39 212637_s_at WWP1 1257.14 3174.36 0.40 212638_s_at WWP1 3721.20 8307.39 0.45 212668_at SMURF1 166.88 71.09 2.35 212672_at ATM 413.23 261.52 1.58 212680_x_at PPP1R14B 3950.78 2284.09 1.73 212692_s_at LRBA 1257.84 2672.15 0.47 212724_at RND3 4737.53 1814.69 2.61 212728_at DLG3 476.18 823.81 0.58 212729_at DLG3 736.35 1213.18 0.61 212811_x_at SLC1A4 1020.34 2190.88 0.47 212959_s_at GNPTAB 1247.03 1756.43 0.71 212960_at TBC1D9 347.58 681.29 0.51 212961_x_at CXorf40B 2114.70 3440.69 0.61 213076_at ITPKC 453.21 670.74 0.68 213093_at PRKCA 1084.31 286.50 3.78 213120_at UHRF1BP1L 103.47 178.83 0.58 213143_at C2orf72 191.08 520.95 0.37 213234_at KIAA1467 546.76 1018.42 0.54 213302_at PFAS 930.42 390.07 2.39 213315_x_at CXorf40A 2236.26 3747.87 0.60 213342_at YAP1 1634.95 890.10 1.84 213427_at RPP40 2129.19 1097.49 1.94 213508_at C14orf147 1262.08 2321.32 0.54 213587_s_at ATP6V0E2 1920.32 4001.85 0.48 213633_at SH3BP1 212.10 139.82 1.52 213724_s_at PDK2 309.76 806.54 0.38 213737_x_at LOC728498 544.22 455.54 1.19 214062_x_at NFKBIB 316.37 209.57 1.51 214109_at LRBA 1028.32 1823.42 0.56 214112_s_at CXorf40A /// CXorf40B 1617.17 2764.85 0.58 214169_at — 221.70 114.58 1.93 214440_at NAT1 923.22 3415.33 0.27 214443_at PVR 499.25 222.30 2.25 214455_at HIST1H2BC 261.02 474.16 0.55 214543_x_at QKI 869.96 461.30 1.89 214616_at HIST1H3E 279.18 387.12 0.72 214754_at TET3 288.65 428.85 0.67 214845_s_at CALU 3661.34 1507.09 2.43 215198_s_at CALD1 176.28 78.43 2.25 215236_s_at PICALM 1795.15 1083.53 1.66 215285_s_at PHTF1 413.17 207.95 1.99 215380_s_at GGCT 9827.73 11927.01 0.82 215464_s_at TAX1BP3 2558.18 1318.92 1.94 215696_s_at SEC16A 3236.59 6301.92 0.51 215707_s_at PRNP 2456.45 446.67 5.50 215728_s_at ACOT7 886.11 608.70 1.46 215743_at NMT2 173.54 74.14 2.34 215942_s_at GTSE1 924.67 632.17 1.46 217200_x_at CYB561 2782.98 4485.27 0.62 217677_at PLEKHA2 162.35 98.75 1.64 217795_s_at TMEM43 2678.00 1510.50 1.77 217940_s_at CARKD 2244.89 3639.13 0.62 217993_s_at MAT2B 4930.96 3303.06 1.49 218065_s_at TMEM9B 2709.45 4004.59 0.68 218156_s_at TSR1 2697.46 1657.61 1.63 218164_at SPATA20 1435.79 2189.17 0.66 218170_at ISOC1 3145.49 6112.08 0.51 218174_s_at C10orf57 447.45 870.42 0.51 218194_at REXO2 6889.09 4173.19 1.65 218195_at C6orf211 3033.33 6012.88 0.50 218237_s_at SLC38A1 4394.00 6831.29 0.64 218242_s_at SUV420H1 1451.27 2545.51 0.57 218245_at TSKU 1315.84 3536.49 0.37 218288_s_at CCDC90B 2505.59 1533.44 1.63 218292_s_at PRKAG2 591.92 351.34 1.68 218342_s_at ERMP1 2093.03 4280.99 0.49 218373_at AKTIP 1631.47 3895.28 0.42 218379_at RBM7 1979.96 1190.61 1.66 218394_at ROGDI 1004.99 1511.04 0.67 218471_s_at BBS1 735.56 892.31 0.82 218500_at C8orf55 1031.94 2452.44 0.42 218561_s_at LYRM4 1941.79 976.00 1.99 218566_s_at CHORDC1 4310.01 2500.98 1.72 218597_s_at CISD1 3363.97 1999.33 1.68 218611_at IER5 4535.31 1806.62 2.51 218640_s_at PLEKHF2 2242.24 4358.84 0.51 218707_at ZNF444 146.66 322.46 0.45 218770_s_at TMEM39B 666.30 278.70 2.39 218778_x_at EPS8L1 291.57 433.78 0.67 218862_at ASB13 867.69 1718.94 0.50 218886_at PAK1IP1 1445.48 750.07 1.93 218890_x_at MRPL35 1746.24 976.24 1.79 218978_s_at SLC25A37 174.97 77.12 2.27 218985_at SLC2A8 357.56 691.37 0.52 219017_at ETNK1 961.91 1765.20 0.54 219100_at OBFC1 602.85 1034.18 0.58 219164_s_at ATG2B 380.08 529.96 0.72 219189_at FBXL6 587.02 928.42 0.63 219223_at C9orf7 471.29 830.88 0.57 219234_x_at SCRN3 175.71 291.23 0.60 219236_at PAQR6 288.69 627.62 0.46 219252_s_at GEMIN8 182.92 301.46 0.61 219306_at KIF15 917.16 562.32 1.63 219311_at CEP76 703.76 459.82 1.53 219374_s_at ALG9 854.18 531.35 1.61 219401_at XYLT2 293.91 504.06 0.58 219500_at CLCF1 447.46 240.22 1.86 219626_at MAP7D3 490.55 255.40 1.92 219687_at HHAT 153.60 273.85 0.56 219741_x_at ZNF552 556.39 960.80 0.58 219760_at LIN7B 195.94 335.59 0.58 219913_s_at CRNKL1 1025.36 1712.35 0.60 219928_s_at CABYR 450.47 286.17 1.57 220238_s_at KLHL7 891.27 594.48 1.50 220239_at KLHL7 1197.37 659.68 1.82 220295_x_at DEPDC1 1467.24 712.94 2.06 220319_s_at MYLIP 804.18 1611.29 0.50 220486_x_at TMEM164 1398.14 2925.84 0.48 220936_s_at H2AFJ 155.98 380.03 0.41 221222_s_at C1orf56 474.70 856.85 0.55 221273_s_at RNF208 269.54 625.31 0.43 221519_at FBXW4 792.39 1076.31 0.74 221580_s_at TAF1D 3131.61 1626.18 1.93 221622_s_at TMEM126B 4045.33 3003.31 1.35 221656_s_at ARHGEF10L 336.60 462.49 0.73 221685_s_at CCDC99 2794.58 1453.45 1.92 221802_s_at KIAA1598 1452.85 2204.67 0.66 221856_s_at FAM63A 853.92 1361.36 0.63 221869_at ZNF512B 520.80 1137.87 0.46 221920_s_at SLC25A37 551.12 236.01 2.34 222303_at — 183.74 61.36 2.99 32062_at LRRC14 275.10 506.80 0.54 35147_at MCF2L 560.46 1078.57 0.52 38340_at HIP1R /// LOC100294412 1711.29 2714.61 0.63 41329_at SCYL3 447.03 917.83 0.49 45653_at KCTD13 381.06 552.92 0.69 48106_at SLC48A1 664.85 1296.47 0.51 55872_at ZNF512B 2049.11 3419.45 0.60 57516_at ZNF764 254.44 451.08 0.56 61874_at C9orf7 788.64 1409.92 0.56 62987_r_at CACNG4 1375.17 2582.09 0.53 74694_s_at RABEP2 752.65 1318.05 0.57

TABLE 2 EC probeID Gene.Symbol mean_sens mean_resis fold.change 177_at PLD1 169.91 95.45 1.78 200076_s_at C19orf50 2036.80 1321.67 1.54 200670_at XBP1 7838.42 16253.14 0.48 200864_s_at RAB11A 1974.56 3282.05 0.60 200894_s_at FKBP4 2617.01 5234.00 0.50 200895_s_at FKBP4 5325.43 10261.41 0.52 200904_at HLA-E 826.56 323.78 2.55 200905_x_at HLA-E 2984.25 1914.12 1.56 201003_x_at RNPEP /// TMEM189 /// TMEM189- 3869.73 5796.20 0.67 UBE2V1 /// UBE2V1 201323_at EBNA1BP2 3572.66 1433.13 2.49 201329_s_at ETS2 567.18 213.19 2.66 201440_at DDX23 1584.35 2173.32 0.73 201468_s_at NQO1 4803.97 12113.92 0.40 201484_at SUPT4H1 1240.48 1812.63 0.68 201533_at CTNNB1 3874.15 2433.32 1.59 201582_at SEC23B 726.54 1317.11 0.55 201605_x_at CNN2 2368.04 1369.21 1.73 201631_s_at IER3 10520.90 5496.12 1.91 201734_at CLCN3 1819.00 2949.48 0.62 201764_at TMEM106C 3499.52 5316.15 0.66 201976_s_at MYO10 2730.90 1091.11 2.50 202076_at BIRC2 4254.63 2254.80 1.89 202132_at WWTR1 685.01 268.54 2.55 202133_at WWTR1 2625.60 963.67 2.72 202134_s_at WWTR1 952.77 365.30 2.61 202147_s_at IFRD1 1759.62 1005.48 1.75 202187_s_at PPP2R5A 1298.81 2201.46 0.59 202204_s_at AMFR 682.95 1250.71 0.55 202321_at GGPS1 553.49 937.51 0.59 202381_at ADAM9 5866.12 3089.33 1.90 202431_s_at MYC 4982.95 1939.31 2.57 202449_s_at RXRA 2358.92 4474.92 0.53 202500_at DNAJB2 686.75 937.82 0.73 202558_s_at HSPA13 1723.47 892.08 1.93 202579_x_at HMGN4 4248.67 2646.12 1.61 202590_s_at PDK2 329.00 792.05 0.42 202613_at CTPS 2749.79 1546.23 1.78 202623_at EAPP 1934.94 2614.59 0.74 202636_at RNF103 2133.44 4237.30 0.50 202684_s_at RNMT 340.60 167.71 2.03 202704_at TOB1 5194.53 10543.09 0.49 202708_s_at HIST2H2BE 698.97 2339.56 0.30 202727_s_at IFNGR1 2627.01 1616.03 1.63 202870_s_at CDC20 5556.95 2968.47 1.87 202900_s_at NUP88 2511.84 1390.64 1.81 202937_x_at RRP7A 1205.78 700.11 1.72 202955_s_at ARFGEF1 932.09 1548.86 0.60 202982_s_at ACOT1 /// ACOT2 1379.05 2236.08 0.62 203009_at BCAM 149.62 311.02 0.48 203023_at NOP16 1992.20 1115.13 1.79 203045_at NINJ1 1187.71 2067.73 0.57 203247_s_at ZNF24 1113.83 2027.05 0.55 203282_at GBE1 3219.53 1203.89 2.67 203350_at AP1G1 1479.50 2550.85 0.58 203388_at ARRB2 687.24 437.41 1.57 203411_s_at LMNA 7741.01 5540.32 1.40 203491_s_at CEP57 809.46 495.44 1.63 203492_x_at CEP57 1402.35 844.27 1.66 203712_at KIAA0020 1834.70 1134.41 1.62 203754_s_at BRF1 177.55 409.93 0.43 203764_at DLGAP5 3310.45 1845.34 1.79 203778_at MANBA 485.40 801.85 0.61 203796_s_at BCL7A 193.43 389.93 0.50 203870_at USP46 667.24 1061.61 0.63 203967_at CDC6 2563.20 1151.80 2.23 203968_s_at CDC6 2906.15 1239.65 2.34 204049_s_at PHACTR2 1310.01 728.01 1.80 204088_at P2RX4 651.16 1510.25 0.43 204162_at NDC80 2411.14 1117.60 2.16 204194_at BACH1 900.93 460.86 1.95 204199_at RALGPS1 149.52 392.70 0.38 204287_at SYNGR1 284.85 550.36 0.52 204365_s_at REEP1 215.11 817.57 0.26 204372_s_at KHSRP 4183.88 2661.80 1.57 204395_s_at GRK5 279.46 100.06 2.79 204485_s_at TOM1L1 1768.65 4385.17 0.40 204966_at BAI2 278.49 632.08 0.44 204969_s_at RDX 652.94 214.55 3.04 204975_at EMP2 2431.84 5666.62 0.43 204977_at DDX10 2083.42 989.58 2.11 205005_s_at NMT2 730.69 303.91 2.40 205006_s_at NMT2 445.72 175.63 2.54 205074_at SLC22A5 956.58 1919.24 0.50 205126_at VRK2 1392.65 913.24 1.52 205130_at RAGE 1286.85 276.80 4.65 205173_x_at CD58 2343.05 1174.78 1.99 205176_s_at ITGB3BP 2160.18 1281.82 1.69 205193_at MAFF 473.58 295.07 1.60 205251_at PER2 871.18 1436.65 0.61 205260_s_at ACYP1 1323.32 610.87 2.17 205443_at SNAPC1 1556.98 576.77 2.70 205486_at TESK2 395.62 734.29 0.54 205527_s_at GEMIN4 741.70 393.81 1.88 205594_at ZNF652 1218.56 3520.48 0.35 205732_s_at NCOA2 243.90 428.61 0.57 205796_at TCP11L1 349.98 187.20 1.87 205961_s_at PSIP1 1696.91 1098.37 1.54 205996_s_at AK2 1001.72 576.53 1.74 206074_s_at HMGA1 6888.09 3435.70 2.00 206076_at LRRC23 144.41 291.64 0.50 206127_at ELK3 154.31 82.24 1.88 206194_at HOXC4 423.43 824.15 0.51 206275_s_at MICAL2 204.67 104.58 1.96 206412_at FER 354.76 155.71 2.28 206491_s_at NAPA 2076.17 3379.57 0.61 206527_at ABAT 280.21 572.87 0.49 206653_at POLR3G 356.37 136.42 2.61 206752_s_at DFFB 247.24 140.82 1.76 207081_s_at PI4KA 1185.63 1964.34 0.60 207196_s_at TNIP1 2162.21 1247.19 1.73 207809_s_at ATP6AP1 6497.63 11558.89 0.56 207821_s_at PTK2 1961.13 3216.42 0.61 207824_s_at MAZ 664.58 1247.09 0.53 208002_s_at ACOT7 3662.99 2331.49 1.57 208033_s_at ZFHX3 211.36 451.73 0.47 208078_s_at SIK1 1026.65 572.03 1.79 208180_s_at HIST1H4H 354.02 1350.03 0.26 208270_s_at RNPEP 4258.64 6383.97 0.67 208384_s_at MID2 546.86 759.84 0.72 208636_at ACTN1 9775.62 5451.76 1.79 208637_x_at ACTN1 5199.44 2367.45 2.20 208740_at SAP18 942.27 1326.35 0.71 208741_at SAP18 423.47 824.34 0.51 208751_at NAPA 1058.44 1740.25 0.61 208774_at CSNK1D 2061.66 2924.88 0.70 208817_at COMT 2945.19 5515.93 0.53 208818_s_at COMT 7111.89 12199.22 0.58 208836_at ATP1B3 11598.05 7206.03 1.61 208873_s_at REEP5 3746.96 6440.32 0.58 208886_at H1F0 4224.77 5644.62 0.75 208910_s_at C1QBP 10282.75 6215.27 1.65 208912_s_at CNP 2120.29 1403.97 1.51 208921_s_at SRI 5733.58 2551.05 2.25 208927_at SPOP 1753.95 3097.44 0.57 208930_s_at ILF3 1547.37 823.55 1.88 208931_s_at ILF3 2810.73 1244.61 2.26 208933_s_at LGALS8 1321.23 3326.27 0.40 208934_s_at LGALS8 2095.06 3965.76 0.53 208935_s_at LGALS8 587.17 1434.39 0.41 208936_x_at LGALS8 1349.81 3125.76 0.43 209050_s_at RALGDS 785.66 1327.78 0.59 209051_s_at RALGDS 458.75 742.75 0.62 209087_x_at MCAM 803.67 154.98 5.19 209110_s_at RGL2 2162.18 3418.40 0.63 209112_at CDKN1B 3207.05 5832.22 0.55 209163_at CYB561 3072.40 5262.15 0.58 209164_s_at CYB561 1757.99 3093.35 0.57 209222_s_at OSBPL2 1280.42 2130.92 0.60 209333_at ULK1 358.30 771.01 0.46 209337_at PSIP1 2381.60 1490.50 1.60 209339_at SIAH2 1776.11 4351.41 0.41 209431_s_at PATZ1 533.57 1105.00 0.48 209494_s_at PATZ1 803.86 2242.86 0.36 209530_at CACNB3 447.87 1001.60 0.45 209572_s_at EED 2791.91 1780.09 1.57 209611_s_at SLC1A4 370.80 708.88 0.52 209624_s_at MCCC2 1458.15 2524.13 0.58 209645_s_at ALDH1B1 449.14 247.13 1.82 209667_at CES2 987.93 1796.32 0.55 209681_at SLC19A2 859.43 1880.79 0.46 209693_at ASTN2 211.53 401.86 0.53 209703_x_at METTL7A 485.86 1040.99 0.47 209818_s_at HABP4 227.02 111.40 2.04 209862_s_at CEP57 995.83 609.71 1.63 209883_at GLT25D2 162.24 97.43 1.67 209935_at ATP2C1 650.63 345.22 1.88 210005_at GART 742.94 383.18 1.94 210010_s_at SLC25A1 3326.80 4616.32 0.72 210018_x_at MALT1 715.66 415.64 1.72 210075_at MARCH2 399.91 635.27 0.63 210183_x_at PNN 9407.58 14334.16 0.66 210191_s_at PHTF1 550.19 294.11 1.87 210457_x_at HMGA1 701.94 185.47 3.78 210463_x_at TRMT1 778.54 395.95 1.97 210519_s_at NQO1 10666.99 17779.20 0.60 210582_s_at LIMK2 771.51 1545.72 0.50 210651_s_at EPHB2 346.29 177.67 1.95 210719_s_at HMG20B 1923.81 2832.25 0.68 210740_s_at ITPK1 1797.05 3296.35 0.55 210816_s_at CYB561 573.54 983.28 0.58 210958_s_at MAST4 187.88 448.20 0.42 211139_s_at NAB1 753.64 350.75 2.15 211160_x_at ACTN1 4255.13 1540.36 2.76 211233_x_at ESR1 89.09 248.81 0.36 211256_x_at BTN2A1 457.34 278.18 1.64 211392_s_at PATZ1 510.21 1214.35 0.42 211416_x_at GGTLC1 319.66 651.95 0.49 211519_s_at KIF2C 1801.53 1076.18 1.67 211559_s_at CCNG2 755.48 1513.34 0.50 211565_at SH3GL3 100.25 176.98 0.57 211686_s_at MAK16 1600.99 926.72 1.73 211744_s_at CD58 1430.37 738.56 1.94 211967_at TMEM123 8083.51 4928.18 1.64 212046_x_at MAPK3 808.06 2213.82 0.37 212057_at KIAA0182 2677.45 5276.67 0.51 212090_at GRINA 2483.11 4552.62 0.55 212110_at SLC39A14 2668.68 1176.95 2.27 212114_at ATXN7L3B 2691.55 3883.93 0.69 212155_at RNF187 3427.23 5560.11 0.62 212174_at AK2 1509.08 780.68 1.93 212202_s_at TMEM87A 1342.13 2329.64 0.58 212246_at MCFD2 1751.43 755.18 2.32 212262_at QKI 1227.72 579.68 2.12 212263_at QKI 1544.22 779.34 1.98 212335_at GNS 3000.46 3785.92 0.79 212367_at FEM1B 671.62 1323.64 0.51 212398_at RDX 2312.71 1089.10 2.12 212400_at FAM102A 1363.12 3739.76 0.36 212441_at KIAA0232 1226.52 2630.88 0.47 212442_s_at LASS6 2219.13 4931.94 0.45 212446_s_at LASS6 1407.02 3153.66 0.45 212462_at MYST4 997.05 1937.00 0.51 212506_at PICALM 4519.67 2855.16 1.58 212508_at MOAP1 1942.91 2963.48 0.66 212534_at ZNF24 1294.97 1871.97 0.69 212568_s_at DLAT 3275.35 1888.67 1.73 212569_at SMCHD1 985.38 572.45 1.72 212577_at SMCHD1 1408.23 760.03 1.85 212637_s_at WWP1 1199.68 3048.85 0.39 212638_s_at WWP1 3358.63 8050.37 0.42 212662_at PVR 710.25 361.55 1.96 212668_at SMURF1 143.96 69.54 2.07 212672_at ATM 478.62 275.29 1.74 212692_s_at LRBA 1227.92 2681.49 0.46 212728_at DLG3 443.77 809.82 0.55 212729_at DLG3 653.90 1230.92 0.53 212811_x_at SLC1A4 1081.59 2336.89 0.46 212830_at MEGF9 900.25 3127.18 0.29 212831_at MEGF9 147.86 555.58 0.27 212867_at — 1237.78 2084.76 0.59 212870_at SOS2 1192.43 1652.88 0.72 212891_s_at GADD45GIP1 1233.86 798.90 1.54 212956_at TBC1D9 1850.54 4755.03 0.39 212960_at TBC1D9 326.51 704.24 0.46 212961_x_at CXorf40B 2177.38 3358.72 0.65 213005_s_at KANK1 1333.83 484.14 2.76 213035_at ANKRD28 863.65 433.64 1.99 213055_at CD47 224.32 380.40 0.59 213067_at MYH10 503.20 146.13 3.44 213136_at PTPN2 1878.35 1011.84 1.86 213137_s_at PTPN2 1087.92 580.44 1.87 213234_at KIAA1467 535.86 1044.85 0.51 213302_at PFAS 1015.63 389.48 2.61 213315_x_at CXorf40A 2273.04 3666.36 0.62 213320_at PRMT3 1502.28 831.80 1.81 213427_at RPP40 2334.03 1035.60 2.25 213508_at C14orf147 1212.48 2229.91 0.54 213546_at DKFZP586I1420 667.20 1195.44 0.56 213547_at CAND2 221.14 97.62 2.27 213587_s_at ATP6V0E2 1949.44 4262.09 0.46 213889_at — 471.80 285.60 1.65 214011_s_at NOP16 2933.39 1784.20 1.64 214035_x_at LOC399491 2190.80 3757.21 0.58 214062_x_at NFKBIB 327.32 194.56 1.68 214109_at LRBA 1035.04 1831.58 0.57 214169_at — 219.65 112.86 1.95 214440_at NAT1 952.57 3487.98 0.27 214443_at PVR 511.16 220.71 2.32 214455_at HIST1H2BC 249.25 473.03 0.53 214543_x_at QKI 856.64 437.31 1.96 214616_at HIST1H3E 273.98 388.34 0.71 215198_s_at CALD1 168.89 79.08 2.14 215236_s_at PICALM 1861.94 1102.09 1.69 215285_s_at PHTF1 421.97 199.90 2.11 215407_s_at ASTN2 234.96 543.61 0.43 215696_s_at SEC16A 3066.40 6214.55 0.49 215707_s_at PRNP 2489.96 452.75 5.50 215728_s_at ACOT7 927.19 622.07 1.49 215743_at NMT2 197.44 77.57 2.55 216942_s_at CD58 1645.47 842.90 1.95 217200_x_at CYB561 2590.59 4256.08 0.61 217456_x_at HLA-E 1221.15 913.20 1.34 217677_at PLEKHA2 188.70 100.04 1.89 217756_x_at SERF2 9482.74 14659.37 0.65 217795_s_at TMEM43 2552.99 1554.85 1.64 217940_s_at CARKD 2123.20 3235.99 0.66 217993_s_at MAT2B 4879.78 3104.83 1.57 218065_s_at TMEM9B 2702.93 3966.20 0.68 218096_at AGPAT5 2689.68 1311.89 2.05 218156_s_at TSR1 2843.66 1552.00 1.83 218164_at SPATA20 1318.86 2336.83 0.56 218174_s_at C10orf57 425.20 851.80 0.50 218194_at REXO2 7741.59 4172.99 1.86 218195_at C6orf211 3035.51 6148.10 0.49 218242_s_at SUV420H1 1444.31 2742.91 0.53 218245_at TSKU 1169.02 2877.33 0.41 218288_s_at CCDC90B 2741.82 1591.30 1.72 218307_at RSAD1 791.08 1130.25 0.70 218373_at AKTIP 1441.65 3889.24 0.37 218379_at RBM7 2123.97 1201.65 1.77 218394_at ROGDI 848.38 1462.38 0.58 218561_s_at LYRM4 2074.33 991.43 2.09 218566_s_at CHORDC1 4656.24 2550.72 1.83 218597_s_at CISD1 3450.72 1913.78 1.80 218611_at IER5 4512.03 1754.63 2.57 218662_s_at NCAPG 1459.03 836.16 1.74 218663_at NCAPG 1565.98 987.91 1.59 218770_s_at TMEM39B 620.45 281.42 2.20 218776_s_at TMEM62 527.70 1158.65 0.46 218778_x_at EPS8L1 258.92 409.09 0.63 218818_at FHL3 225.90 101.81 2.22 218834_s_at TMEM132A 1127.75 1642.48 0.69 218851_s_at WDR33 95.31 183.60 0.52 218862_at ASB13 922.18 1762.90 0.52 218886_at PAK1IP1 1440.11 751.15 1.92 218890_x_at MRPL35 1641.85 1018.02 1.61 218978_s_at SLC25A37 153.88 72.45 2.12 219164_s_at ATG2B 335.57 527.88 0.64 219223_at C9orf7 396.70 805.74 0.49 219234_x_at SCRN3 167.99 282.15 0.60 219236_at PAQR6 273.44 646.12 0.42 219366_at AVEN 961.87 584.61 1.65 219374_s_at ALG9 882.42 480.59 1.84 219626_at MAP7D3 474.98 261.68 1.82 219687_at HHAT 136.81 272.56 0.50 219741_x_at ZNF552 547.40 912.14 0.60 219760_at LIN7B 200.94 323.19 0.62 219913_s_at CRNKL1 1055.17 1764.82 0.60 220238_s_at KLHL7 906.48 612.73 1.48 220239_at KLHL7 1140.04 670.21 1.70 220295_x_at DEPDC1 1588.76 758.82 2.09 220486_x_at TMEM164 1306.17 2868.46 0.46 220682_s_at — 156.83 98.33 1.59 220936_s_at H2AFJ 153.79 395.40 0.39 221222_s_at C1orf56 447.50 843.18 0.53 221273_s_at RNF208 269.58 681.17 0.40 221379_at — 138.93 81.03 1.71 221449_s_at ITFG1 2193.03 3365.69 0.65 221517_s_at MED17 1866.16 1177.05 1.59 221519_at FBXW4 811.34 1087.19 0.75 221580_s_at TAF1D 3556.21 1686.99 2.11 221622_s_at TMEM126B 4578.70 2973.94 1.54 221685_s_at CCDC99 2913.75 1471.85 1.98 221756_at PIK3IP1 167.86 406.40 0.41 221838_at KLHL22 286.05 480.29 0.60 221869_at ZNF512B 531.98 1154.43 0.46 221920_s_at SLC25A37 454.12 239.91 1.89 222234_s_at DBNDD1 573.38 908.41 0.63 222303_at — 185.28 59.16 3.13 34726_at CACNB3 626.40 1170.88 0.53 35147_at MCF2L 476.61 1163.32 0.41 37028_at PPP1R15A 957.54 495.21 1.93 38340_at HIP1R /// LOC100294412 1616.47 2717.04 0.59 38766_at SRCAP 402.71 636.85 0.63 41329_at SCYL3 391.17 987.31 0.40 45653_at KCTD13 390.05 573.99 0.68 57516_at ZNF764 284.81 449.40 0.63 61874_at C9orf7 708.94 1393.41 0.51 62987_r_at CACNG4 1248.36 2751.03 0.45 74694_s_at RABEP2 699.94 1327.07 0.53

TABLE 3 FEC probeID Gene.Symbol mean_sens mean_resis fold.change 177_at PLD1 164.79 94.41 1.75 200755_s_at CALU 3522.35 1805.50 1.95 200757_s_at CALU 6100.30 3398.68 1.79 200864_s_at RAB11A 1950.30 3306.97 0.59 200894_s_at FKBP4 2875.84 5062.24 0.57 200895_s_at FKBP4 5941.20 10110.61 0.59 200904_at HLA-E 930.49 335.86 2.77 200905_x_at HLA-E 3157.77 2035.51 1.55 201003_x_at RNPEP /// TMEM189 /// TMEM189- 4236.90 5719.43 0.74 UBE2V1 /// UBE2V1 /// UBE2V1P2 201319_at MRCL3 3892.08 2854.18 1.36 201323_at EBNA1BP2 3603.85 1414.56 2.55 201329_s_at ETS2 683.86 229.83 2.98 201330_at RARS 4807.11 2615.76 1.84 201467_s_at NQO1 3479.77 8167.38 0.43 201468_s_at NQO1 5376.29 13090.14 0.41 201484_at SUPT4H1 1134.57 1875.04 0.61 201552_at LAMP1 6244.41 8442.89 0.74 201582_at SEC23B 781.24 1289.71 0.61 201605_x_at CNN2 2129.21 1359.44 1.57 201613_s_at AP1G2 898.73 1621.71 0.55 201626_at INSIG1 1931.66 3105.24 0.62 201627_s_at INSIG1 2034.05 3319.33 0.61 201631_s_at IER3 10331.43 5418.61 1.91 201658_at ARL1 1920.57 2577.10 0.75 201734_at CLCN3 1809.93 2835.19 0.64 201764_at TMEM106C 3342.02 5387.71 0.62 201853_s_at CDC25B 5380.42 3098.56 1.74 201886_at WDR23 1176.13 1696.40 0.69 202132_at WWTR1 713.92 270.91 2.64 202133_at WWTR1 2854.75 953.54 2.99 202134_s_at WWTR1 962.36 365.19 2.64 202204_s_at AMFR 720.83 1263.44 0.57 202381_at ADAM9 6281.84 2993.47 2.10 202449_s_at RXRA 2634.07 4332.61 0.61 202479_s_at TRIB2 545.00 252.31 2.16 202558_s_at HSPA13 1669.02 876.50 1.90 202590_s_at PDK2 291.84 697.67 0.42 202613_at CTPS 3097.18 1619.78 1.91 202623_at EAPP 1800.65 2585.10 0.70 202636_at RNF103 2254.86 3984.62 0.57 202684_s_at RNMT 340.09 170.19 2.00 202704_at TOB1 5166.08 11274.26 0.46 202708_s_at HIST2H2BE 577.79 2312.23 0.25 202870_s_at CDC20 5503.72 2957.35 1.86 202900_s_at NUP88 2323.82 1374.98 1.69 203009_at BCAM 135.21 294.56 0.46 203023_at NOP16 1993.86 1211.95 1.65 203045_at NINJ1 1151.48 2113.26 0.54 203122_at TTC15 577.55 373.42 1.55 203282_at GBE1 3487.51 1162.12 3.00 203350_at AP1G1 1285.74 2483.44 0.52 203411_s_at LMNA 8659.48 5477.99 1.58 203491_s_at CEP57 792.14 502.84 1.58 203492_x_at CEP57 1411.68 854.75 1.65 203712_at KIAA0020 2172.01 1159.62 1.87 203754_s_at BRF1 187.19 410.02 0.46 203764_at DLGAP5 3132.63 2014.17 1.56 203778_at MANBA 539.28 817.94 0.66 203795_s_at BCL7A 299.71 615.12 0.49 203796_s_at BCL7A 166.39 386.80 0.43 203870_at USP46 667.14 1082.93 0.62 203967_at CDC6 3278.74 1383.41 2.37 203968_s_at CDC6 3583.54 1413.45 2.54 204049_s_at PHACTR2 1387.17 841.49 1.65 204067_at SUOX 733.33 996.45 0.74 204088_at P2RX4 642.48 1458.64 0.44 204162_at NDC80 2386.02 1131.43 2.11 204182_s_at ZBTB43 238.59 465.56 0.51 204194_at BACH1 914.46 456.73 2.00 204199_at RALGPS1 158.24 386.26 0.41 204287_at SYNGR1 277.78 524.60 0.53 204317_at GTSE1 506.89 293.05 1.73 204365_s_at REEP1 230.86 696.01 0.33 204395_s_at GRK5 287.93 101.72 2.83 204485_s_at TOM1L1 1507.13 4597.47 0.33 204509_at CA12 97.03 207.39 0.47 204687_at DKFZP564O0823 148.54 540.37 0.27 204906_at RPS6KA2 559.79 301.62 1.86 204934_s_at HPN 182.64 345.00 0.53 204958_at PLK3 220.65 127.91 1.73 204969_s_at RDX 566.78 241.38 2.35 204975_at EMP2 2360.25 5575.21 0.42 205005_s_at NMT2 720.23 308.98 2.33 205006_s_at NMT2 463.23 176.46 2.63 205126_at VRK2 1277.15 940.75 1.36 205173_x_at CD58 2426.03 1181.60 2.05 205193_at MAFF 520.25 285.96 1.82 205251_at PER2 782.30 1440.76 0.54 205443_at SNAPC1 1564.63 605.50 2.58 205474_at CRLF3 1948.63 1109.66 1.76 205536_at VAV2 215.68 323.53 0.67 205594_at ZNF652 1022.22 3140.46 0.33 205702_at PHTF1 387.49 249.58 1.55 205743_at STAC 984.58 198.85 4.95 205796_at TCP11L1 354.66 186.59 1.90 205961_s_at PSIP1 2045.85 1131.92 1.81 205996_s_at AK2 1022.46 569.98 1.79 206076_at LRRC23 136.52 287.63 0.47 206194_at HOXC4 441.72 831.76 0.53 206272_at RAB4A /// SPHAR 611.39 1048.88 0.58 206275_s_at MICAL2 203.01 101.69 2.00 206299_at FAM155B 119.58 252.93 0.47 206412_at FER 313.12 155.57 2.01 206527_at ABAT 224.17 566.95 0.40 206653_at POLR3G 334.74 145.99 2.29 206752_s_at DFFB 247.42 145.43 1.70 207181_s_at CASP7 971.17 1477.32 0.66 207196_s_at TNIP1 2140.62 1288.85 1.66 207296_at ZNF343 133.14 61.53 2.16 207345_at FST 213.81 71.15 3.01 207629_s_at ARHGEF2 757.57 454.29 1.67 207809_s_at ATP6AP1 7428.31 11728.97 0.63 208002_s_at ACOT7 3507.03 2256.37 1.55 208033_s_at ZFHX3 217.42 453.63 0.48 208270_s_at RNPEP 4498.19 6291.81 0.71 208309_s_at MALT1 988.03 392.28 2.52 208384_s_at MID2 471.42 751.77 0.63 208636_at ACTN1 10084.47 5589.44 1.80 208637_x_at ACTN1 5431.91 2442.74 2.22 208740_at SAP18 974.43 1405.21 0.69 208741_at SAP18 447.76 840.94 0.53 208817_at COMT 3038.56 5346.16 0.57 208818_s_at COMT 7634.52 12122.43 0.63 208820_at PTK2 2563.63 4691.97 0.55 208912_s_at CNP 2424.44 1448.59 1.67 208921_s_at SRI 6134.02 2735.38 2.24 208927_at SPOP 1629.62 2802.83 0.58 208931_s_at ILF3 2600.54 1258.95 2.07 208933_s_at LGALS8 1273.42 3204.66 0.40 208934_s_at LGALS8 1752.28 3847.59 0.46 208935_s_at LGALS8 571.86 1365.03 0.42 208936_x_at LGALS8 1233.50 3068.56 0.40 208999_at 8-Sep 1727.65 2885.59 0.60 209037_s_at EHD1 1112.86 641.29 1.74 209050_s_at RALGDS 757.33 1292.51 0.59 209051_s_at RALGDS 461.39 715.64 0.64 209087_x_at MCAM 986.19 156.12 6.32 209112_at CDKN1B 2882.97 5756.21 0.50 209163_at CYB561 3067.32 5390.64 0.57 209164_s_at CYB561 1735.59 3152.70 0.55 209209_s_at FERMT2 1809.97 446.03 4.06 209210_s_at FERMT2 3732.70 1083.11 3.45 209333_at ULK1 387.11 775.19 0.50 209337_at PSIP1 2795.75 1539.95 1.82 209339_at SIAH2 1559.23 4253.10 0.37 209431_s_at PATZ1 487.61 1099.21 0.44 209435_s_at ARHGEF2 2132.31 1338.30 1.59 209494_s_at PATZ1 794.11 2193.46 0.36 209530_at CACNB3 418.48 1000.54 0.42 209572_s_at EED 2609.70 1887.52 1.38 209611_s_at SLC1A4 338.65 633.73 0.53 209623_at MCCC2 3296.67 5800.79 0.57 209624_s_at MCCC2 1293.48 2562.26 0.50 209642_at BUB1 1762.24 1249.03 1.41 209645_s_at ALDH1B1 439.08 276.05 1.59 209667_at CES2 976.13 1773.59 0.55 209681_at SLC19A2 886.71 1819.88 0.49 209693_at ASTN2 187.86 396.34 0.47 209703_x_at METTL7A 528.32 1007.35 0.52 209818_s_at HABP4 236.28 110.46 2.14 209862_s_at CEP57 997.30 619.17 1.61 209883_at GLT25D2 160.36 96.27 1.67 209935_at ATP2C1 667.25 314.23 2.12 210005_at GART 747.32 387.54 1.93 210010_s_at SLC25A1 3272.65 4683.77 0.70 210018_x_at MALT1 908.66 405.71 2.24 210183_x_at PNN 9693.76 14305.14 0.68 210191_s_at PHTF1 530.06 299.76 1.77 210519_s_at NQO1 11618.87 18995.78 0.61 210740_s_at ITPK1 1803.19 3501.59 0.51 210958_s_at MAST4 173.41 454.64 0.38 211084_x_at PRKD3 647.49 299.73 2.16 211113_s_at ABCG1 240.56 579.30 0.42 211160_x_at ACTN1 4057.05 1589.52 2.55 211391_s_at PATZ1 340.61 731.51 0.47 211392_s_at PATZ1 482.15 1196.53 0.40 211416_x_at GGTLC1 349.79 617.75 0.57 211519_s_at KIF2C 1834.94 1061.02 1.73 211559_s_at CCNG2 695.83 1481.83 0.47 211565_at SH3GL3 89.87 176.33 0.51 211574_s_at CD46 2142.35 3029.29 0.71 211686_s_at MAK16 1550.19 899.29 1.72 211744_s_at CD58 1432.70 758.74 1.89 211919_s_at CXCR4 345.24 1018.10 0.34 211967_at TMEM123 9254.49 5170.21 1.79 212046_x_at MAPK3 748.55 2186.49 0.34 212110_at SLC39A14 3087.38 1110.56 2.78 212114_at ATXN7L3B 2417.69 3773.11 0.64 212120_at RHOQ 2463.82 1377.37 1.79 212155_at RNF187 3749.43 5620.81 0.67 212174_at AK2 1533.04 770.78 1.99 212239_at PIK3R1 589.09 1548.14 0.38 212246_at MCFD2 1624.56 735.95 2.21 212262_at QKI 1291.40 606.04 2.13 212263_at QKI 1421.25 813.76 1.75 212332_at RBL2 391.28 1190.63 0.33 212367_at FEM1B 637.40 1343.84 0.47 212372_at MYH10 2566.04 1322.48 1.94 212398_at RDX 2112.62 1128.30 1.87 212400_at FAM102A 1256.51 3289.67 0.38 212441_at KIAA0232 1213.38 2586.33 0.47 212442_s_at LASS6 2288.05 4960.83 0.46 212446_s_at LASS6 1427.99 3166.57 0.45 212462_at MYST4 1004.86 1913.35 0.53 212506_at PICALM 4453.20 2941.14 1.51 212508_at MOAP1 1640.43 3078.15 0.53 212569_at SMCHD1 1005.52 561.40 1.79 212577_at SMCHD1 1405.18 739.46 1.90 212637_s_at WWP1 1252.22 2383.46 0.53 212638_s_at WWP1 3753.93 6979.61 0.54 212662_at PVR 778.53 388.55 2.00 212668_at SMURF1 156.74 77.88 2.01 212672_at ATM 444.48 267.34 1.66 212692_s_at LRBA 1122.31 2576.76 0.44 212729_at DLG3 711.14 1219.52 0.58 212811_x_at SLC1A4 1013.61 2090.76 0.48 212830_at MEGF9 817.29 3059.38 0.27 212891_s_at GADD45GIP1 1216.37 756.64 1.61 212923_s_at C6orf145 2117.86 350.33 6.05 212959_s_at GNPTAB 1236.87 1738.15 0.71 212960_at TBC1D9 313.97 685.74 0.46 213005_s_at KANK1 1583.23 480.35 3.30 213035_at ANKRD28 918.63 433.34 2.12 213055_at CD47 223.40 392.92 0.57 213067_at MYH10 320.26 136.20 2.35 213093_at PRKCA 1309.20 299.35 4.37 213136_at PTPN2 1774.78 1020.35 1.74 213137_s_at PTPN2 1024.37 578.31 1.77 213143_at C2orf72 185.62 456.73 0.41 213234_at KIAA1467 511.83 1052.93 0.49 213283_s_at SALL2 339.21 881.55 0.38 213302_at PFAS 850.18 395.21 2.15 213342_at YAP1 1938.35 1169.44 1.66 213349_at TMCC1 562.11 1113.39 0.50 213352_at TMCC1 323.64 662.77 0.49 213427_at RPP40 2197.60 1164.43 1.89 213508_at C14orf147 1368.20 2064.45 0.66 213573_at — 2354.97 1336.24 1.76 213587_s_at ATP6V0E2 2154.34 4170.53 0.52 213679_at TTC30A 147.09 296.77 0.50 213724_s_at PDK2 317.82 760.14 0.42 214011_s_at NOP16 2965.06 1952.82 1.52 214035_x_at LOC399491 2499.84 3631.35 0.69 214062_x_at NFKBIB 347.30 212.50 1.63 214109_at LRBA 981.18 1732.38 0.57 214169_at — 213.88 114.53 1.87 214212_x_at FERMT2 734.29 262.66 2.80 214317_x_at RPS9 14232.98 8081.48 1.76 214443_at PVR 562.44 228.88 2.46 214449_s_at RHOQ 1032.65 532.98 1.94 214543_x_at QKI 757.72 463.85 1.63 214616_at HIST1H3E 237.05 394.74 0.60 214670_at ZKSCAN1 1684.70 2380.62 0.71 215236_s_at PICALM 1823.23 1122.60 1.62 215285_s_at PHTF1 385.91 198.13 1.95 215407_s_at ASTN2 209.87 527.76 0.40 215464_s_at TAX1BP3 2465.80 1358.84 1.81 215696_s_at SEC16A 3162.37 5906.61 0.54 215707_s_at PRNP 2811.64 461.81 6.09 215728_s_at ACOT7 899.64 602.46 1.49 215743_at NMT2 203.55 77.42 2.63 216044_x_at FAM69A 702.04 344.31 2.04 216262_s_at TGIF2 582.86 958.94 0.61 216942_s_at CD58 1676.97 870.49 1.93 217200_x_at CYB561 2666.32 4321.21 0.62 217456_x_at HLA-E 1303.25 955.18 1.36 217677_at PLEKHA2 193.58 98.34 1.97 217756_x_at SERF2 9805.44 14764.72 0.66 217795_s_at TMEM43 2762.24 1552.00 1.78 217940_s_at CARKD 2190.66 3587.26 0.61 218065_s_at TMEM9B 2673.78 4015.66 0.67 218096_at AGPAT5 2680.04 1400.39 1.91 218156_s_at TSR1 2662.40 1607.20 1.66 218164_at SPATA20 1245.84 2422.53 0.51 218174_s_at C10orf57 395.54 827.43 0.48 218194_at REXO2 8436.03 4204.86 2.01 218195_at C6orf211 2473.59 5786.75 0.43 218242_s_at SUV420H1 1470.04 2660.75 0.55 218245_at TSKU 1240.82 3781.04 0.33 218288_s_at CCDC90B 2424.02 1588.82 1.53 218373_at AKTIP 1631.30 3881.10 0.42 218379_at RBM7 2282.65 1217.14 1.88 218394_at ROGDI 870.83 1504.90 0.58 218417_s_at SLC48A1 480.28 1093.84 0.44 218561_s_at LYRM4 1778.14 1023.52 1.74 218566_s_at CHORDC1 4695.31 2558.06 1.84 218611_at IER5 3656.40 1805.81 2.02 218640_s_at PLEKHF2 1927.86 4487.15 0.43 218662_s_at NCAPG 1450.08 896.32 1.62 218663_at NCAPG 1592.94 1049.39 1.52 218689_at FANCF 511.68 927.62 0.55 218724_s_at TGIF2 292.57 487.05 0.60 218770_s_at TMEM39B 637.15 284.17 2.24 218851_s_at WDR33 96.99 190.52 0.51 218862_at ASB13 830.59 1752.26 0.47 218886_at PAK1IP1 1411.30 775.44 1.82 218890_x_at MRPL35 1791.19 1066.38 1.68 218978_s_at SLC25A37 190.28 71.41 2.66 219017_at ETNK1 1162.51 1704.55 0.68 219051_x_at METRN 1505.71 3749.29 0.40 219164_s_at ATG2B 329.81 542.82 0.61 219165_at PDLIM2 1641.85 364.38 4.51 219223_at C9orf7 446.82 774.34 0.58 219234_x_at SCRN3 170.17 276.53 0.62 219236_at PAQR6 289.07 642.05 0.45 219311_at CEP76 702.87 495.56 1.42 219366_at AVEN 1035.47 653.19 1.59 219374_s_at ALG9 907.65 539.08 1.68 219401_at XYLT2 263.07 440.25 0.60 219411_at ELMO3 371.55 945.40 0.39 219439_at C1GALT1 1249.22 643.76 1.94 219626_at MAP7D3 535.04 262.11 2.04 219687_at HHAT 128.39 265.80 0.48 219692_at KREMEN2 158.35 416.81 0.38 219741_x_at ZNF552 546.15 946.25 0.58 219913_s_at CRNKL1 1068.96 1676.64 0.64 220166_at CNNM1 99.62 181.49 0.55 220238_s_at KLHL7 900.02 563.63 1.60 220295_x_at DEPDC1 1437.86 734.61 1.96 220319_s_at MYLIP 673.49 1591.51 0.42 220486_x_at TMEM164 1312.49 2959.54 0.44 220936_s_at H2AFJ 133.40 374.69 0.36 221012_s_at TRIM8 1172.07 2285.29 0.51 221222_s_at C1orf56 432.67 834.06 0.52 221273_s_at RNF208 234.21 668.80 0.35 221501_x_at LOC339047 2264.19 3313.22 0.68 221580_s_at TAF1D 3569.01 1741.97 2.05 221622_s_at TMEM126B 4582.22 3067.11 1.49 221685_s_at CCDC99 2966.17 1531.05 1.94 221869_at ZNF512B 471.78 1152.98 0.41 221882_s_at TMEM8A 1130.00 2175.15 0.52 221920_s_at SLC25A37 619.74 242.15 2.56 222199_s_at BIN3 651.58 477.48 1.36 222234_s_at DBNDD1 376.76 911.95 0.41 222273_at PAPOLG 254.64 157.25 1.62 34726_at CACNB3 570.77 1172.46 0.49 35147_at MCF2L 511.63 1157.56 0.44 37028_at PPP1R15A 973.18 493.95 1.97 38340_at HIP1R /// LOC100294412 1533.94 2630.37 0.58 38766_at SRCAP 437.02 642.82 0.68 40420_at STK10 724.82 526.97 1.38 41329_at SCYL3 410.51 984.74 0.42 44040_at FBXO41 371.71 607.75 0.61 45653_at KCTD13 364.58 551.66 0.66 48106_at SLC48A1 558.86 1283.58 0.44 55872_at ZNF512B 1623.17 3458.78 0.47 57516_at ZNF764 266.65 447.32 0.60 61874_at C9orf7 749.70 1291.55 0.58 62987_r_at CACNG4 1227.07 2657.12 0.46 74694_s_at RABEP2 737.11 1175.30 0.63

TABLE 4 AC probeID Gene.Symbol mean_sens mean_resis fold.change 1552277_a_at C9orf30 2116.47 943 2.24 1554026_a_at MYO10 249.27 96.64 2.58 1554830_a_at STEAP3 421.01 236.14 1.78 1555483_x_at FBLIM1 233.32 81.38 2.87 1555841_at C9orf30 1074.75 459.9 2.34 1555982_at ZFYVE16 229.88 412.83 0.56 1557049_at BTBD19 176.47 83.7 2.11 1559064_at NUP153 304.47 138.55 2.2 1559591_s_at CHDH 260.97 497.47 0.52 1564907_s_at MATR3 /// SNHG4 226.65 65.18 3.48 1564911_at SNHG4 193.49 65.66 2.95 1568838_at LOC100132169 152.52 507.68 0.3 1569024_at FAM13A 158.64 82.77 1.92 1569149_at PDLIM7 395.93 208.1 1.9 1569150_x_at PDLIM7 378.18 218.9 1.73 1569470_a_at FRMD5 262.11 92.02 2.85 1569867_at EME2 346.9 714.47 0.49 1569868_s_at EME2 334.17 697.39 0.48 177_at PLD1 178.44 97.16 1.84 200755_s_at CALU 3660.82 1690.71 2.17 200894_s_at FKBP4 2501.31 5300.55 0.47 200895_s_at FKBP4 5168.02 10457.44 0.49 200904_at HLA-E 1010.61 305.43 3.31 200905_x_at HLA-E 3204.76 1808.68 1.77 201323_at EBNA1BP2 3636.04 1426.2 2.55 201329_s_at ETS2 675.92 219.58 3.08 201467_s_at NQO1 3266.22 8193.83 0.4 201468_s_at NQO1 4997.85 13199.73 0.38 201582_at SEC23B 753.29 1251.19 0.6 201631_s_at IER3 10700.39 4975 2.15 201764_at TMEM106C 3449.36 5490.57 0.63 201853_s_at CDC25B 5105.65 2998.39 1.7 201968_s_at PGM1 4656.4 1826.14 2.55 202132_at WWTR1 780.45 277.68 2.81 202134_s_at WWTR1 997.5 374.31 2.66 202187_s_at PPP2R5A 1228.8 2218.88 0.55 202204_s_at AMFR 665.5 1226.66 0.54 202381_at ADAM9 6638.27 3075.88 2.16 202431_s_at MYC 4722.4 2143.15 2.2 202558_s_at HSPA13 1721.13 842.41 2.04 202613_at CTPS 2911.09 1495.58 1.95 202636_at RNF103 1975.8 4197.3 0.47 202684_s_at RNMT 339.2 167.33 2.03 202704_at TOB1 4807.4 11795.1 0.41 202708_s_at HIST2H2BE 493.25 2338.18 0.21 202870_s_at CDC20 5547.15 2923.33 1.9 202900_s_at NUP88 2425.31 1462.44 1.66 203009_at BCAM 132.22 324.94 0.41 203045_at NINJ1 1060.11 2001.2 0.53 203282_at GBE1 3585.7 1255.5 2.86 203350_at AP1G1 1220.89 2523.78 0.48 203370_s_at PDLIM7 794.47 352.98 2.25 203754_s_at BRF1 168.79 405.56 0.42 203870_at USP46 639.63 1129.62 0.57 203968_s_at CDC6 2865.69 1323.26 2.17 204088_at P2RX4 777.93 1506.12 0.52 204162_at NDC80 2517.9 1111.87 2.26 204194_at BACH1 935.64 472.85 1.98 204199_at RALGPS1 138.12 385.35 0.36 204287_at SYNGR1 269.95 492.41 0.55 204365_s_at REEP1 221.05 815.47 0.27 204485_s_at TOM1L1 1508.94 4633.31 0.33 204687_at PARM1 163.6 551.92 0.3 204958_at PLK3 231.17 125.94 1.84 204975_at EMP2 2036.9 5613.45 0.36 205005_s_at NMT2 816.36 297.29 2.75 205006_s_at NMT2 512.11 164.67 3.11 205074_at SLC22A5 899.55 2019.9 0.45 205126_at VRK2 1361.19 922.38 1.48 205173_x_at CD58 2568.43 1105.54 2.32 205251_at PER2 766.35 1439.74 0.53 205443_at SNAPC1 1580.3 579.01 2.73 205594_at ZNF652 1049.39 3510.1 0.3 205796_at TCP11L1 348.68 198.23 1.76 205961_s_at PSIP1 1911.73 1000.09 1.91 205996_s_at AK2 1031.97 556.46 1.85 206074_s_at HMGA1 7795.53 3385.5 2.3 206076_at LRRC23 131.31 293.85 0.45 206275_s_at MICAL2 211.63 99.88 2.12 206412_at FER 347.24 159.28 2.18 206491_s_at NAPA 2280.03 3639.02 0.63 206506_s_at SUPT3H 333.39 131.69 2.53 206527_at ABAT 231.24 539.41 0.43 206653_at POLR3G 352.21 123.42 2.85 206752_s_at DFFB 245.21 128.95 1.9 207809_s_at ATP6AP1 6634.46 12047.48 0.55 208002_s_at ACOT7 3769.08 2159.89 1.75 208309_s_at MALT1 1026 378.38 2.71 208384_s_at MID2 467.87 760.72 0.62 208636_at ACTN1 10030.75 5381.77 1.86 208637_x_at ACTN1 5501.79 2374.66 2.32 208740_at SAP18 908.99 1404.96 0.65 208741_at SAP18 443 877.75 0.5 208817_at COMT 2892.56 5649.28 0.51 208818_s_at COMT 7070.09 12746.92 0.55 208886_at H1F0 4134.75 5763.46 0.72 208933_s_at LGALS8 1179.61 3364.79 0.35 208934_s_at LGALS8 1737.37 3978.52 0.44 208935_s_at LGALS8 535.36 1436.19 0.37 208936_x_at LGALS8 1123.37 3180.76 0.35 209087_x_at MCAM 1305.5 147.05 8.88 209110_s_at RGL2 2127.92 3392.67 0.63 209112_at CDKN1B 3033.1 5728.39 0.53 209163_at CYB561 2849.81 5516.43 0.52 209164_s_at CYB561 1608.93 3225.7 0.5 209222_s_at OSBPL2 1242.09 2088.24 0.59 209333_at ULK1 337.55 785.75 0.43 209337_at PSIP1 2792.5 1369.14 2.04 209431_s_at PATZ1 469 1036.3 0.45 209494_s_at PATZ1 766.88 2118.86 0.36 209572_s_at EED 2729.49 1875.58 1.46 209611_s_at SLC1A4 381.22 690.15 0.55 209624_s_at MCCC2 1211.23 2493.14 0.49 209645_s_at ALDH1B1 457.42 248.07 1.84 209703_x_at METTL7A 484.22 1025.2 0.47 209818_s_at HABP4 245.01 113.27 2.16 209862_s_at CEP57 1044.97 611.19 1.71 209883_at GLT25D2 170.22 99.41 1.71 210005_at GART 755.88 368.61 2.05 210010_s_at SLC25A1 3128.9 4741.65 0.66 210018_x_at MALT1 937.65 398.1 2.36 210191_s_at PHTF1 575.67 292.59 1.97 210651_s_at EPHB2 392.05 178.82 2.19 210740_s_at ITPK1 1563.03 3486.26 0.45 210958_s_at MAST4 218.69 451.68 0.48 211051_s_at EXTL3 275.98 149.16 1.85 211160_x_at ACTN1 4738.88 1508.42 3.14 211392_s_at PATZ1 483.83 1165.23 0.42 211565_at SH3GL3 85.16 169.03 0.5 211686_s_at MAK16 1639.65 904.75 1.81 211744_s_at CD58 1483.88 696.77 2.13 211919_s_at CXCR4 346.15 1050.29 0.33 212046_x_at MAPK3 741.71 2245.28 0.33 212155_at RNF187 3207.21 5752.82 0.56 212174_at AK2 1538.85 750.99 2.05 212202_s_at TMEM87A 1353.25 2411.24 0.56 212239_at PIK3R1 540.86 1543.38 0.35 212246_at MCFD2 1733.09 711.99 2.43 212262_at QKI 1330.1 592.15 2.25 212263_at QKI 1663.49 802.5 2.07 212400_at FAM102A 1236.71 3783.69 0.33 212442_s_at LASS6 2134.97 5178.6 0.41 212446_s_at LASS6 1359.27 3278.4 0.41 212508_at MOAP1 1586.28 3110.02 0.51 212569_at SMCHD1 1043.39 555.32 1.88 212577_at SMCHD1 1475.38 739.47 2 212637_s_at WWP1 1191.08 3076.56 0.39 212638_s_at WWP1 3347.56 8103.71 0.41 212668_at SMURF1 150.57 69.68 2.16 212672_at ATM 489.52 266.68 1.84 212692_s_at LRBA 1120.75 2661.79 0.42 212729_at DLG3 618.32 1228.2 0.5 212811_x_at SLC1A4 1166.32 2300.78 0.51 212830_at MEGF9 867.76 2988.52 0.29 212960_at TBC1D9 283.84 698.2 0.41 213005_s_at KANK1 1625.68 497.69 3.27 213035_at ANKRD28 958.67 444.26 2.16 213120_at UHRF1BP1L 112.88 179.69 0.63 213137_s_at PTPN2 1107.28 586.7 1.89 213234_at KIAA1467 516.49 1002.29 0.52 213302_at PFAS 908.51 378.01 2.4 213315_x_at CXorf40A 2319.76 3733.84 0.62 213342_at YAP1 1685.19 1151.57 1.46 213427_at RPP40 2420.84 1066.82 2.27 213508_at C14orf147 1225.12 2307.81 0.53 213587_s_at ATP6V0E2 2002.78 4210.45 0.48 214109_at LRBA 961.49 1762.45 0.55 214169_at — 218.11 109.13 2 214443_at PVR 531.06 225.54 2.35 214543_x_at QKI 869.42 456.53 1.9 215198_s_at CALD1 165.09 79.15 2.09 215285_s_at PHTF1 411.76 193.48 2.13 215696_s_at SEC16A 3016.28 6215.42 0.49 215707_s_at PRNP 3135.75 473.69 6.62 216942_s_at CD58 1718.64 793.85 2.16 217200_x_at CYB561 2456.77 4410 0.56 217677_at PLEKHA2 207.54 82.9 2.5 218065_s_at TMEM9B 2745.79 3992.94 0.69 218156_s_at TSR1 2860.04 1539.51 1.86 218164_at SPATA20 1162.74 2510.02 0.46 218194_at REXO2 8653.3 4245.55 2.04 218195_at C6orf211 2433.52 6048.45 0.4 218245_at TSKU 1175.89 3815.63 0.31 218288_s_at CCDC90B 2687.36 1551.63 1.73 218373_at AKTIP 1332.16 3835.36 0.35 218379_at RBM7 2388.64 1218.42 1.96 218394_at ROGDI 812.8 1557.24 0.52 218611_at IER5 3866.1 1722.62 2.24 218663_at NCAPG 1645.24 1009.1 1.63 218770_s_at TMEM39B 648.69 273.35 2.37 218818_at FHL3 222.45 100.22 2.22 218886_at PAK1IP1 1385.46 729.8 1.9 218890_x_at MRPL35 1525.63 1065.82 1.43 218978_s_at SLC25A37 193.01 70.5 2.74 219223_at C9orf7 388.22 841.91 0.46 219234_x_at SCRN3 170.27 293.76 0.58 219236_at PAQR6 263.56 654.99 0.4 219366_at AVEN 1003.58 597.74 1.68 219411_at ELMO3 397.41 926.12 0.43 219626_at MAP7D3 570.24 258.94 2.2 219741_x_at ZNF552 534.28 976.52 0.55 220295_x_at DEPDC1 1611.87 762.31 2.11 220936_s_at H2AFJ 141.32 397.72 0.36 221222_s_at C1orf56 406.68 802.14 0.51 221273_s_at RNF208 251.99 646.44 0.39 221519_at FBXW4 698.08 1092.86 0.64 221580_s_at TAF1D 3740.47 1687.96 2.22 221685_s_at CCDC99 3026.63 1384.28 2.19 221869_at ZNF512B 459.16 1177.12 0.39 221920_s_at SLC25A37 617.44 239.08 2.58 222234_s_at DBNDD1 346.57 852.3 0.41 222477_s_at TM7SF3 2644.29 4794.6 0.55 222566_at SUV420H1 327.53 632.86 0.52 222608_s_at ANLN 5868.58 3368.31 1.74 222646_s_at ERO1L 3943.74 2189.45 1.8 222728_s_at TAF1D 2763.95 1275.24 2.17 222811_at FTSJD1 1130.86 1824.69 0.62 222867_s_at MED31 1346.75 736 1.83 223072_s_at INO80B /// WBP1 889.62 1790.13 0.5 223089_at VEZT 434.31 833.84 0.52 223151_at DCUN1D5 5399.54 2666.94 2.02 223179_at YPEL3 806.55 1689.11 0.48 223199_at MKNK2 1260.73 2373.3 0.53 223202_s_at TMEM164 837.03 1849.27 0.45 223225_s_at SEH1L 1675.43 743.55 2.25 223279_s_at UACA 615.55 210.87 2.92 223376_s_at BRI3 5303.92 2506.07 2.12 223386_at FAM118B 832.38 437.03 1.9 223412_at KBTBD7 381.65 697.76 0.55 223413_s_at LYAR 1694.07 705.8 2.4 223458_at SEZ6L2 242.32 501.54 0.48 223611_s_at LNX1 322.36 848.11 0.38 223847_s_at ERGIC1 1494.7 2722.86 0.55 223963_s_at IGF2BP2 159.77 80.69 1.98 223989_s_at REXO2 1121.19 522.07 2.15 224336_s_at DUSP16 391.05 971.68 0.4 224657_at ERRFI1 4531.8 1606.45 2.82 224734_at HMGB1 1515.69 2610.95 0.58 224832_at DUSP16 717.15 2032.97 0.35 224894_at YAP1 4628.99 2403.96 1.93 224895_at YAP1 3725.49 2420.68 1.54 224905_at WDR26 1532.23 2640.07 0.58 224927_at KIAA1949 2426.36 701.63 3.46 224998_at CMTM4 1733.81 4002.65 0.43 225009_at CMTM4 1461.53 3180.55 0.46 225025_at IGSF8 579.25 1251.4 0.46 225032_at FNDC3B 3171.13 1832.52 1.73 225067_at ULK3 544.32 961.52 0.57 225079_at EMP2 1851.29 4879.21 0.38 225197_at — 610.66 1138.7 0.54 225203_at PPP1R16A 597.2 1476.94 0.4 225299_at MYO5B 328.47 735.01 0.45 225327_at KIAA1370 893.21 2419.22 0.37 225331_at CCDC50 3746.28 1292.07 2.9 225418_at PVRL2 1382.08 2604.39 0.53 225520_at MTHFD1L 1879.68 751.41 2.5 225561_at SELT 772.68 1349.53 0.57 225604_s_at GLIPR2 336.84 92.03 3.66 225606_at BCL2L11 800.01 1815.01 0.44 225659_at SPOPL 562.34 1202.68 0.47 225799_at LOC541471 /// 5018.81 1963.32 2.56 NCRNA00152 225866_at RPF2 2568.25 1667.93 1.54 225914_s_at CAB39L 569.37 1014.51 0.56 225961_at KLHDC5 387.52 687.75 0.56 225988_at HERC4 2493.5 1169.61 2.13 226072_at FUK 485.48 995.15 0.49 226111_s_at ZNF385A 462.29 939.95 0.49 226403_at TMC4 453.62 2022.07 0.22 226448_at FAM89A 401.97 200.45 2.01 226613_at GATSL3 /// TBC1D10A 214.49 455.22 0.47 226773_at — 725.23 1250.53 0.58 226791_at KIFC2 774.16 1988.49 0.39 226792_s_at KIFC2 444.16 981.38 0.45 226861_at ASB8 849.7 1260.58 0.67 226893_at ABL2 720.98 266.29 2.71 226968_at KIF1B 1003.32 498.11 2.01 227040_at NHLRC3 362.31 849.16 0.43 227166_at DNAJC18 281.69 106.49 2.65 227172_at TMEM116 503.19 1012.45 0.5 227208_at CCDC84 1204.57 508.44 2.37 227372_s_at BAIAP2L1 2550.01 1572.79 1.62 227413_at UBLCP1 1545.43 948.05 1.63 227534_at C9orf21 997.52 455.5 2.19 227562_at MAPKSP1 294.41 503.02 0.59 227569_at LNX2 620.41 1215.37 0.51 227572_at USP30 372.08 627.86 0.59 227698_s_at RAB40C 1085.05 1745.1 0.62 227699_at C14orf149 464.77 243.61 1.91 227904_at AZI2 686.03 350.35 1.96 227945_at TBC1D1 272.33 173.13 1.57 228098_s_at MYLIP 1092.25 2975.25 0.37 228213_at H2AFJ 111.29 360.13 0.31 228217_s_at PSMG4 2701.45 782.59 3.45 228457_at — 151.8 255.25 0.59 228693_at CCDC50 288.17 122.05 2.36 228834_at TOB1 4541.93 12281.3 0.37 228856_at ZNF747 245.29 551.98 0.44 228990_at SNHG12 908.27 555.47 1.64 229114_at GAB1 270.69 464.39 0.58 229223_at ESRP2 414.39 925.63 0.45 229310_at KLHL29 518.49 102.84 5.04 229440_at RBM47 166.86 385.51 0.43 230142_s_at CIRBP 294.21 520.53 0.57 230172_at IFI27L1 770.55 449.93 1.71 230769_at DENND2C 205.39 134.91 1.52 230799_at LOC100134259 204.42 134.33 1.52 231111_at — 94.38 231.27 0.41 231274_s_at — 859.77 330.51 2.6 231411_at LHFP 267.15 132.98 2.01 232035_at HIST1H4H 368.22 1212.98 0.3 232078_at PVRL2 851.8 2037.19 0.42 232079_s_at PVRL2 1024.83 2219.78 0.46 232333_at — 208.21 105.35 1.98 232350_x_at GPR161 202.53 88.1 2.3 233528_s_at GATSL3 /// TBC1D10A 290.19 522.02 0.56 233571_x_at PPDPF 5392.92 10368.73 0.52 233803_s_at MYBBP1A 327.87 173.55 1.89 234975_at GSPT1 577.51 1224.89 0.47 235020_at TAF4B 448.59 181.3 2.47 235398_at ZNF805 181.01 322.82 0.56 235463_s_at LASS6 719.03 1860.82 0.39 235501_at — 514.48 1145.46 0.45 235577_at ZNF652 347.9 1204.47 0.29 235681_at — 204.76 682.83 0.3 236370_at — 224.19 132.89 1.69 236704_at — 168.72 101.33 1.67 237400_at ATP5S 278.87 113.23 2.46 238002_at GOLIM4 1965.32 741.3 2.65 238628_s_at TRAPPC2L 123.82 242.19 0.51 238909_at — 364.39 210.81 1.73 239210_at — 105.46 201.72 0.52 239824_s_at TMEM107 931.23 395.58 2.35 240261_at TOM1L1 275.36 913.71 0.3 241957_x_at LIN7B 293.23 507.13 0.58 242019_at LASS6 209.74 698.02 0.3 242053_at — 167.51 324.96 0.52 242260_at MATR3 770.01 207.6 3.71 242389_at — 176.55 548.61 0.32 243931_at — 633.8 359.56 1.76 244647_at — 142.94 270.76 0.53 244765_at — 145.91 330.82 0.44 34726_at CACNB3 564.95 1063.37 0.53 35147_at MCF2L 397.27 1184.92 0.34 37028_at PPP1R15A 1034.1 489.13 2.11 38340_at HIP1R /// LOC100294412 1560.41 2836.99 0.55 41329_at SCYL3 357.85 1005.97 0.36 55872_at ZNF512B 1605.66 3474.76 0.46 61874_at C9orf7 683.37 1436.63 0.48 62987_r_at CACNG4 1101.03 2703.96 0.41 74694_s_at RABEP2 701.77 1321.97 0.53

TABLE 5 ACT probeID Gene.Symbol mean_sens mean_resis fold.change 1552277_a_at C9orf30 2018.46 978.75 2.06 1553212_at KRT78 164.08 264.84 0.62 1553274_a_at SNRNP48 570.74 336.52 1.70 1554026_a_at MYO10 218.08 124.92 1.75 1554241_at COCH 3061.10 4272.22 0.72 1555841_at C9orf30 1041.11 418.45 2.49 1555993_at CACNA1D 132.59 194.56 0.68 1557121_s_at LOC100289294 203.63 422.82 0.48 1560916_a_at DPY19L1 561.63 249.76 2.25 1563253_s_at ERBB3 419.20 855.83 0.49 1563809_a_at MCF2L 92.95 194.81 0.48 1564907_s_at MATR3 /// SNHG4 248.69 92.00 2.70 1564911_at SNHG4 196.76 79.55 2.47 1565436_s_at MLL 128.92 75.90 1.70 1569149_at PDLIM7 363.63 225.28 1.61 1569867_at EME2 350.56 684.89 0.51 200894_s_at FKBP4 2750.09 4910.79 0.56 200895_s_at FKBP4 5564.88 9684.33 0.57 200904_at HLA-E 938.35 302.08 3.11 200905_x_at HLA-E 3319.96 1881.49 1.76 200961_at SEPHS2 3391.93 5510.20 0.62 201323_at EBNA1BP2 3622.28 1608.04 2.25 201330_at RARS 4616.21 2890.16 1.60 201580_s_at TMX4 1104.89 404.90 2.73 201613_s_at AP1G2 852.04 1522.14 0.56 201734_at CLCN3 1799.33 2884.43 0.62 201764_at TMEM106C 3253.86 5020.61 0.65 201853_s_at CDC25B 5081.74 3219.87 1.58 201886_at DCAF11 1147.69 1794.77 0.64 202076_at BIRC2 4729.27 2453.80 1.93 202187_s_at PPP2R5A 1258.72 2098.83 0.60 202204_s_at AMFR 718.16 1266.06 0.57 202321_at GGPS1 536.77 987.24 0.54 202479_s_at TRIB2 543.12 228.54 2.38 202558_s_at HSPA13 1737.39 832.92 2.09 202579_x_at HMGN4 4508.22 2603.21 1.73 202613_at CTPS 2923.73 1496.99 1.95 202636_at RNF103 1963.46 4187.56 0.47 202704_at TOB1 4696.27 12358.73 0.38 202708_s_at HIST2H2BE 549.71 2190.17 0.25 202743_at PIK3R3 1777.94 4696.15 0.38 202870_s_at CDC20 5766.87 3014.96 1.91 202900_s_at NUP88 2330.38 1458.86 1.60 203009_at BCAM 127.09 321.73 0.40 203045_at NINJ1 1040.33 2069.40 0.50 203306_s_at SLC35A1 2017.46 3142.05 0.64 203350_at AP1G1 1302.88 2420.61 0.54 203370_s_at PDLIM7 755.69 396.45 1.91 203491_s_at CEP57 851.49 516.20 1.65 203492_x_at CEP57 1481.80 899.74 1.65 203796_s_at BCL7A 177.92 359.51 0.49 203870_at USP46 638.73 1106.07 0.58 203968_s_at CDC6 3109.00 1525.13 2.04 204067_at SUOX 697.09 935.38 0.75 204157_s_at SIK3 476.30 312.19 1.53 204194_at BACH1 979.24 465.36 2.10 204287_at SYNGR1 258.58 591.45 0.44 204295_at SURF1 2180.76 3876.10 0.56 204365_s_at REEP1 234.05 709.72 0.33 204613_at PLCG2 298.90 172.56 1.73 204745_x_at MT1G 2368.33 1165.66 2.03 204958_at PLK3 209.44 120.60 1.74 204975_at EMP2 2149.63 5554.10 0.39 204977_at DDX10 2091.85 996.42 2.10 205005_s_at NMT2 808.11 282.79 2.86 205006_s_at NMT2 507.49 158.21 3.21 205173_x_at CD58 2428.92 1117.31 2.17 205260_s_at ACYP1 1403.97 651.32 2.16 205574_x_at BMP1 401.48 169.93 2.36 205594_at ZNF652 1047.60 3777.81 0.28 205607_s_at SCYL3 336.82 806.12 0.42 205961_s_at PSIP1 2002.69 1062.55 1.88 205996_s_at AK2 1063.74 585.64 1.82 206275_s_at MICAL2 208.09 109.88 1.89 206308_at TRDMT1 229.94 108.87 2.11 206412_at FER 349.23 145.27 2.40 206527_at ABAT 231.67 526.88 0.44 206653_at POLR3G 353.96 141.04 2.51 206745_at HOXC11 547.87 1348.95 0.41 207163_s_at AKT1 2275.32 3735.82 0.61 207809_s_at ATP6AP1 6774.48 10641.43 0.64 207986_x_at CYB561 2483.01 5159.32 0.48 208002_s_at ACOT7 3602.66 2279.05 1.58 208637_x_at ACTN1 5643.75 2343.17 2.41 208740_at SAP18 781.64 1300.71 0.60 208741_at SAP18 384.24 807.20 0.48 208817_at COMT 2753.37 5051.04 0.55 208818_s_at COMT 7000.72 11441.54 0.61 208873_s_at REEP5 3144.19 6793.99 0.46 208921_s_at SRI 6239.69 2772.45 2.25 208927_at SPOP 1689.67 3416.55 0.49 208935_s_at LGALS8 524.36 1500.17 0.35 209112_at CDKN1B 2878.08 5124.38 0.56 209164_s_at CYB561 1638.42 3367.59 0.49 209195_s_at ADCY6 1034.52 1534.16 0.67 209222_s_at OSBPL2 1249.08 2051.08 0.61 209275_s_at CLN3 1266.23 2694.17 0.47 209333_at ULK1 375.23 736.10 0.51 209337_at PSIP1 2792.88 1381.60 2.02 209380_s_at ABCC5 1311.51 2284.91 0.57 209431_s_at PATZ1 467.74 999.71 0.47 209494_s_at PATZ1 760.41 2099.79 0.36 209624_s_at MCCC2 1213.72 2574.15 0.47 209645_s_at ALDH1B1 449.75 259.78 1.73 209650_s_at TBC1D22A 254.39 104.82 2.43 209786_at HMGN4 4377.80 2582.52 1.70 209787_s_at HMGN4 3000.41 1885.62 1.59 209818_s_at HABP4 241.67 116.20 2.08 209862_s_at CEP57 1054.08 662.18 1.59 210005_at GART 765.57 362.81 2.11 210010_s_at SLC25A1 3070.64 4605.33 0.67 210191_s_at PHTF1 547.59 291.43 1.88 210542_s_at SLCO3A1 184.18 81.25 2.27 210719_s_at HMG20B 1883.65 2691.93 0.70 210740_s_at ITPK1 1749.11 3540.50 0.49 210816_s_at CYB561 506.73 1120.30 0.45 210859_x_at CLN3 1685.88 3386.05 0.50 211160_x_at ACTN1 4275.94 1416.24 3.02 211392_s_at PATZ1 489.77 1181.82 0.41 211559_s_at CCNG2 700.45 1494.29 0.47 211565_at SH3GL3 81.30 167.92 0.48 211580_s_at PIK3R3 297.19 766.67 0.39 211744_s_at CD58 1430.86 712.16 2.01 212046_x_at MAPK3 718.45 2222.38 0.32 212090_at GRINA 2641.66 4722.09 0.56 212110_at SLC39A14 3056.58 1056.30 2.89 212155_at RNF187 3390.37 5466.16 0.62 212174_at AK2 1566.62 768.52 2.04 212246_at MCFD2 1704.25 760.11 2.24 212262_at QKI 1325.94 637.43 2.08 212263_at QKI 1601.13 802.78 1.99 212372_at MYH10 2907.35 1153.96 2.52 212400_at FAM102A 1218.60 3686.79 0.33 212441_at KIAA0232 1173.45 2433.14 0.48 212442_s_at LASS6 2166.36 5146.63 0.42 212446_s_at LASS6 1340.01 3372.17 0.40 212473_s_at MICAL2 2620.79 570.88 4.59 212508_at MOAP1 1584.08 3091.48 0.51 212637_s_at WWP1 1062.79 2975.71 0.36 212638_s_at WWP1 3259.77 7922.19 0.41 212672_at ATM 487.66 232.23 2.10 212692_s_at LRBA 1103.75 2523.18 0.44 212728_at DLG3 427.74 813.97 0.53 212729_at DLG3 661.89 1278.86 0.52 212944_at SLC5A3 2066.81 1097.14 1.88 213067_at MYH10 368.27 114.87 3.21 213093_at PRKCA 1283.92 164.58 7.80 213120_at UHRF1BP1L 99.42 177.48 0.56 213143_at C2orf72 193.34 542.72 0.36 213234_at KIAA1467 496.56 853.98 0.58 213302_at PFAS 860.04 364.60 2.36 213342_at YAP1 2029.41 1196.64 1.70 213427_at RPP40 2359.95 1173.35 2.01 213508_at C14orf147 1202.46 2213.43 0.54 213587_s_at ATP6V0E2 1976.59 3868.03 0.51 213710_s_at CALM1 605.75 1059.59 0.57 213737_x_at LOC728498 581.38 408.64 1.42 214062_x_at NFKBIB 337.80 205.70 1.64 214109_at LRBA 920.59 1724.11 0.53 214543_x_at QKI 851.47 498.52 1.71 215285_s_at PHTF1 391.70 204.77 1.91 215696_s_at SEC16A 2994.37 6198.22 0.48 215707_s_at PRNP 3051.81 848.25 3.60 215743_at NMT2 215.09 80.56 2.67 216044_x_at FAM69A 723.11 309.40 2.34 216942_s_at CD58 1653.79 796.63 2.08 217200_x_at CYB561 2569.68 4603.85 0.56 217456_x_at HLA-E 1356.09 855.17 1.59 217595_at GSPT1 247.71 574.71 0.43 217677_at PLEKHA2 205.22 98.75 2.08 218032_at SNN 795.79 1412.03 0.56 218156_s_at TSR1 2866.14 1664.73 1.72 218164_at SPATA20 1221.59 2583.51 0.47 218174_s_at C10orf57 374.61 879.38 0.43 218194_at REXO2 8465.72 3836.90 2.21 218237_s_at SLC38A1 4750.69 7015.64 0.68 218244_at NOL8 1536.35 988.69 1.55 218288_s_at CCDC90B 2632.76 1649.35 1.60 218373_at AKTIP 1536.19 4075.84 0.38 218379_at RBM7 2360.02 1143.63 2.06 218394_at ROGDI 850.99 1378.23 0.62 218561_s_at LYRM4 2035.10 939.80 2.17 218566_s_at CHORDC1 4920.96 2736.17 1.80 218611_at IER5 3980.17 1761.51 2.26 218640_s_at PLEKHF2 2110.15 4571.43 0.46 218770_s_at TMEM39B 635.27 306.11 2.08 218778_x_at EPS8L1 243.53 440.40 0.55 218828_at PLSCR3 825.22 437.03 1.89 218978_s_at SLC25A37 190.98 79.88 2.39 218985_at SLC2A8 299.25 715.66 0.42 219057_at RABEP2 117.30 309.56 0.38 219100_at OBFC1 576.37 1125.21 0.51 219223_at C9orf7 417.12 809.65 0.52 219338_s_at LRRC49 251.51 141.78 1.77 219342_at CASD1 562.45 1015.30 0.55 219401_at XYLT2 284.37 596.01 0.48 219626_at MAP7D3 557.88 240.97 2.32 219741_x_at ZNF552 512.19 977.45 0.52 219847_at HDAC11 123.95 348.13 0.36 219913_s_at CRNKL1 956.93 1586.84 0.60 219929_s_at ZFYVE21 862.30 1425.51 0.60 220073_s_at PLEKHG6 234.96 481.70 0.49 220239_at KLHL7 1244.15 720.16 1.73 220258_s_at WRAP53 514.05 314.35 1.64 221012_s_at TRIM8 1234.71 2382.00 0.52 221222_s_at C1orf56 379.75 825.53 0.46 221273_s_at RNF208 247.04 742.67 0.33 221580_s_at TAF1D 3796.25 1673.13 2.27 221685_s_at CCDC99 3075.82 1480.38 2.08 221869_at ZNF512B 443.90 1248.30 0.36 222160_at AKAP8L 67.63 131.95 0.51 222566_at SUV420H1 316.88 705.65 0.45 222599_s_at NAV2 341.23 176.02 1.94 222699_s_at PLEKHF2 1958.02 4519.77 0.43 222728_s_at TAF1D 2717.93 1194.46 2.28 222867_s_at MED31 1258.56 680.56 1.85 223179_at YPEL3 800.02 1885.19 0.42 223199_at MKNK2 1344.04 2461.96 0.55 223202_s_at TMEM164 822.54 1735.11 0.47 223279_s_at UACA 581.46 223.18 2.61 223376_s_at BRI3 5246.95 2681.86 1.96 223377_x_at CISH 708.45 1705.24 0.42 223386_at FAM118B 855.45 462.21 1.85 223412_at KBTBD7 353.82 660.67 0.54 223413_s_at LYAR 1751.68 794.42 2.20 223611_s_at LNX1 335.18 883.70 0.38 223847_s_at ERGIC1 1583.34 2538.03 0.62 223894_s_at AKTIP 1280.14 3125.03 0.41 223989_s_at REXO2 1085.93 494.07 2.20 224002_s_at FKBP7 339.57 144.82 2.34 224445_s_at ZFYVE21 2433.25 4001.02 0.61 224450_s_at RIOK1 1431.54 814.75 1.76 224574_at C17orf49 1126.00 590.87 1.91 224576_at ERGIC1 4388.66 7514.28 0.58 224577_at ERGIC1 1576.17 2703.06 0.58 224657_at ERRFI1 5112.96 1661.92 3.08 224690_at C20orf108 3979.80 6005.43 0.66 224734_at HMGB1 1367.63 2273.09 0.60 224832_at DUSP16 624.04 1892.33 0.33 224894_at YAP1 4846.80 2510.56 1.93 224897_at WDR26 1491.36 2665.01 0.56 224927_at KIAA1949 2349.12 797.23 2.95 224998_at CMTM4 1668.00 3832.55 0.44 225009_at CMTM4 1450.80 3135.91 0.46 225197_at — 606.82 1111.11 0.55 225203_at PPP1R16A 620.92 1560.99 0.40 225266_at ZNF652 788.00 2683.56 0.29 225299_at MYO5B 282.73 751.19 0.38 225561_at SELT 638.15 1372.74 0.46 225606_at BCL2L11 809.74 1760.66 0.46 225659_at SPOPL 537.67 1191.68 0.45 225866_at RPF2 2684.93 1572.68 1.71 225891_at TPRN 513.45 1029.26 0.50 225912_at TP53INP1 870.60 3599.78 0.24 225981_at C17orf28 573.38 1619.87 0.35 225988_at HERC4 2427.07 1188.24 2.04 226072_at FUK 485.92 827.40 0.59 226111_s_at ZNF385A 481.00 934.24 0.51 226363_at ABCC5 370.45 623.70 0.59 226403_at TMC4 456.05 1670.76 0.27 226613_at GATSL3 /// TBC1D10A 222.93 468.28 0.48 226765_at SPTBN1 215.71 109.58 1.97 226791_at KIFC2 786.46 2187.62 0.36 226792_s_at KIFC2 397.28 1129.75 0.35 226861_at ASB8 839.18 1243.92 0.67 227029_at FAM177A1 1208.93 2292.38 0.53 227172_at TMEM116 510.95 1042.66 0.49 227208_at CCDC84 1198.86 501.15 2.39 227293_at — 210.45 371.63 0.57 227352_at C19orf39 335.29 556.65 0.60 227407_at TAPT1 1025.59 1685.18 0.61 227413_at UBLCP1 1574.43 1055.14 1.49 227446_s_at C14orf167 628.62 1237.27 0.51 227562_at MAPKSP1 261.10 513.96 0.51 227569_at LNX2 631.74 1154.83 0.55 227667_at CUEDC1 656.44 1260.12 0.52 227699_at C14orf149 439.43 200.40 2.19 227904_at AZI2 650.53 390.96 1.66 227959_at — 472.76 868.41 0.54 228098_s_at MYLIP 1136.76 2857.80 0.40 228217_s_at PSMG4 2657.49 921.13 2.89 228457_at — 145.04 270.14 0.54 228702_at FLJ43663 316.50 173.88 1.82 229114_at GAB1 250.62 491.43 0.51 229223_at ESRP2 394.58 849.66 0.46 229310_at KLHL29 542.38 105.57 5.14 229408_at HDAC5 140.95 76.51 1.84 229440_at RBM47 213.94 402.15 0.53 230142_s_at CIRBP 309.02 509.34 0.61 230172_at IFI27L1 818.04 469.82 1.74 230769_at DENND2C 203.79 126.69 1.61 230799_at LOC100134259 213.35 142.69 1.50 231111_at — 97.78 239.67 0.41 231403_at TRIO 188.17 105.18 1.79 231411_at LHFP 259.94 131.31 198 231828_at LOC253039 622.33 1120.34 0.56 231872_at LRRCC1 284.24 659.78 0.43 232035_at HIST1H4H 322.37 1428.62 0.23 232064_at — 192.90 92.84 2.08 232078_at PVRL2 847.30 1879.85 0.45 232079_s_at PVRL2 956.73 2093.71 0.46 232103_at BPNT1 829.84 1558.88 0.53 232140_at — 256.82 165.22 1.55 232322_x_at STARD10 2089.24 8068.69 0.26 232350_x_at GPR161 201.78 95.57 2.11 233252_s_at STRBP 1118.24 1930.52 0.58 233528_s_at GATSL3 /// TBC1D10A 295.70 560.16 0.53 233571_x_at PPDPF 5482.87 9819.89 0.56 233803_s_at MYBBP1A 329.54 190.87 1.73 234107_s_at DTD1 3258.11 1624.56 2.01 234975_at GSPT1 516.87 1201.57 0.43 235463_s_at LASS6 778.66 1937.10 0.40 235501_at — 483.76 1093.11 0.44 235577_at ZNF652 342.40 1262.91 0.27 235681_at — 205.61 1011.26 0.20 235955_at MARVELD2 156.90 361.41 0.43 236125_at — 196.81 435.39 0.45 236370_at — 221.63 125.20 1.77 238058_at LOC150381 1906.03 981.39 1.94 238191_at — 322.31 601.44 0.54 238467_at — 360.49 891.62 0.40 238500_at EMP2 186.85 326.41 0.57 238818_at KIAA1429 162.20 273.58 0.59 238909_at — 372.11 176.54 2.11 239047_at FAM122C 191.92 108.84 1.76 239210_at — 108.05 205.45 0.53 239307_at MYH11 82.47 206.38 0.40 239598_s_at LPCAT2 464.17 268.86 1.73 239824_s_at TMEM107 891.15 443.68 2.01 240261_at TOM1L1 280.07 874.19 0.32 242019_at LASS6 222.66 712.35 0.31 242052_at — 208.86 87.96 2.37 242053_at — 168.57 310.83 0.54 242260_at MATR3 773.54 245.21 3.15 242723_at — 186.81 128.20 1.46 242749_at — 126.01 84.69 1.49 243495_s_at — 808.07 3082.60 0.26 243552_at MBTD1 191.19 546.57 0.35 243634_at — 240.55 823.40 0.29 243862_at — 99.17 221.74 0.45 244765_at — 145.70 332.04 0.44 35147_at MCF2L 470.59 1133.56 0.42 37028_at PPP1R15A 1030.42 516.75 1.99 38340_at HIP1R /// LOC100294412 1531.40 2572.59 0.60 40093_at BCAM 457.48 1153.91 0.40 40420_at STK10 726.81 529.61 1.37 41329_at SCYL3 355.36 1014.44 0.35 55872_at ZNF512B 1568.93 3333.81 0.47 57516_at ZNF764 254.73 461.64 0.55 61874_at C9orf7 695.66 1373.65 0.51

TABLE 6 TFEC probeID Gene.Symbol mean_sens mean_resis fold.change 177_at PLD1 167.10 118.42 1.41 200076_s_at C19orf50 2543.67 1355.76 1.88 200709_at FKBP1A 9650.88 5929.42 1.63 200790_at ODC1 6645.80 2767.67 2.40 200864_s_at RAB11A 1988.29 3166.88 0.63 200875_s_at NOP56 5243.86 3540.99 1.48 200895_s_at FKBP4 5886.85 9922.75 0.59 200905_x_at HLA-E 3030.21 1646.01 1.84 200916_at TAGLN2 9822.30 7161.49 1.37 201266_at TXNRD1 7848.05 4738.82 1.66 201323_at EBNA1BP2 3478.49 1710.40 2.03 201329_s_at ETS2 689.43 256.33 2.69 201330_at RARS 4881.39 2079.97 2.35 201337_s_at VAMP3 2813.59 1792.36 1.57 201439_at GBF1 733.62 1022.44 0.72 201468_s_at NQO1 4700.09 9916.66 0.47 201484_at SUPT4H1 1103.85 2009.17 0.55 201582_at SEC23B 749.26 1285.33 0.58 201626_at INSIG1 1684.52 3030.99 0.56 201627_s_at INSIG1 1741.57 2970.79 0.59 201660_at ACSL3 1920.01 3286.63 0.58 201661_s_at ACSL3 1753.94 2884.83 0.61 201734_at CLCN3 1670.85 2852.02 0.59 201853_s_at CDC25B 4847.03 3093.41 1.57 201886_at DCAF11 1250.19 1700.21 0.74 202061_s_at SEL1L 1839.84 2821.48 0.65 202076_at BIRC2 4009.15 2397.69 1.67 202132_at WWTR1 458.16 323.66 1.42 202133_at WWTR1 1728.46 1069.00 1.62 202134_s_at WWTR1 687.23 443.43 1.55 202172_at VEZF1 1531.01 2847.70 0.54 202173_s_at VEZF1 1953.83 3980.69 0.49 202204_s_at AMFR 655.87 1060.92 0.62 202321_at GGPS1 480.93 1159.10 0.41 202431_s_at MYC 5854.60 2337.07 2.51 202558_s_at HSPA13 1434.74 1085.27 1.32 202579_x_at HMGN4 3660.82 2156.73 1.70 202590_s_at PDK2 237.24 1004.28 0.24 202613_at CTPS 2847.20 1465.19 1.94 202636_at RNF103 2450.38 4728.45 0.52 202704_at TOB1 5037.05 11689.76 0.43 202708_s_at HIST2H2BE 648.03 2058.01 0.31 202769_at CCNG2 1507.54 3897.54 0.39 202770_s_at CCNG2 1162.16 2813.18 0.41 202854_at HPRT1 6330.95 4342.03 1.46 202870_s_at CDC20 5047.28 2987.14 1.69 202900_s_at NUP88 2433.21 1419.77 1.71 202955_s_at ARFGEF1 845.25 1599.41 0.53 202982_s_at ACOT1 /// ACOT2 1015.07 2181.12 0.47 203009_at BCAM 143.38 369.02 0.39 203023_at NOP16 2193.80 1056.64 2.08 203040_s_at HMBS 2292.06 1083.93 2.11 203212_s_at MTMR2 512.69 307.53 1.67 203247_s_at ZNF24 1115.09 2191.91 0.51 203350_at AP1G1 1493.09 2090.54 0.71 203370_s_at PDLIM7 583.92 386.71 1.51 203388_at ARRB2 765.19 485.47 1.58 203411_s_at LMNA 8270.66 5357.72 1.54 203491_s_at CEP57 780.84 470.23 1.66 203492_x_at CEP57 1363.96 780.33 1.75 203494_s_at CEP57 1299.83 820.84 1.58 203554_x_at PTTG1 8523.19 5795.13 1.47 203594_at RTCD1 3269.44 2194.74 1.49 203712_at KIAA0020 2210.86 993.14 2.23 203758_at CTSO 311.13 733.64 0.42 203764_at DLGAP5 3042.52 1832.74 1.66 203795_s_at BCL7A 324.77 739.55 0.44 203796_s_at BCL7A 187.52 393.57 0.48 203856_at VRK1 2086.79 1244.17 1.68 203867_s_at NLE1 924.70 619.65 1.49 203870_at USP46 713.61 1108.82 0.64 203926_x_at ATP5D 1196.92 614.09 1.95 203967_at CDC6 3342.45 1110.90 3.01 203968_s_at CDC6 3713.62 1191.39 3.12 204033_at TRIP13 6104.25 2436.01 2.51 204048_s_at PHACTR2 1263.73 715.83 1.77 204088_at P2RX4 543.12 1253.77 0.43 204157_s_at SIK3 449.53 286.84 1.57 204182_s_at ZBTB43 242.65 481.86 0.50 204194_at BACH1 883.78 447.60 1.97 204208_at RNGTT 768.66 550.24 1.40 204287_at SYNGR1 272.87 623.52 0.44 204365_s_at REEP1 229.35 719.92 0.32 204485_s_at TOM1L1 1665.01 4172.88 0.40 204571_x_at PIN4 2999.33 1941.87 1.54 204589_at NUAK1 1056.67 251.25 4.21 204613_at PLCG2 275.80 181.59 1.52 204766_s_at NUDT1 775.05 551.87 1.40 204805_s_at H1FX 3282.72 5227.02 0.63 204833_at ATG12 666.62 360.67 1.85 204958_at PLK3 227.21 125.44 1.81 204969_s_at RDX 539.95 199.94 2.70 204977_at DDX10 1932.03 886.83 2.18 205005_s_at NMT2 611.58 316.19 1.93 205006_s_at NMT2 376.26 180.85 2.08 205023_at RAD51 135.27 91.29 1.48 205071_x_at XRCC4 393.89 248.85 1.58 205126_at VRK2 1407.28 1046.77 1.34 205167_s_at CDC25C 657.24 466.92 1.41 205173_x_at CD58 2197.05 986.66 2.23 205260_s_at ACYP1 1221.17 688.01 1.77 205412_at ACAT1 6089.59 2917.26 2.09 205443_at SNAPC1 1419.06 562.48 2.52 205527_s_at GEMIN4 790.06 408.99 1.93 205594_at ZNF652 1127.75 4126.59 0.27 205607_s_at SCYL3 423.43 824.36 0.51 205732_s_at NCOA2 218.15 460.09 0.47 205796_at TCP11L1 325.57 241.14 1.35 205961_s_at PSIP1 1765.19 944.02 1.87 205996_s_at AK2 1059.95 583.94 1.82 206005_s_at KIAA1009 139.06 77.74 1.79 206074_s_at HMGA1 7573.47 4034.30 1.88 206076_at LRRC23 150.44 312.21 0.48 206085_s_at CTH 457.53 111.09 4.12 206194_at HOXC4 348.29 772.32 0.45 206245_s_at IVNS1ABP 4282.89 2858.16 1.50 206297_at CTRC 100.09 154.27 0.65 206412_at FER 291.20 145.05 2.01 206491_s_at NAPA 1961.14 3398.15 0.58 206527_at ABAT 254.31 510.92 0.50 206653_at POLR3G 362.42 165.82 2.19 206745_at HOXC11 583.83 1223.08 0.48 206752_s_at DFFB 283.11 138.27 2.05 207163_s_at AKT1 2429.14 3908.26 0.62 207196_s_at TNIP1 2031.55 1399.31 1.45 207392_x_at UGT2B15 108.53 932.37 0.12 207809_s_at ATP6AP1 6850.38 10418.63 0.66 207821_s_at PTK2 1780.21 3518.58 0.51 208002_s_at ACOT7 4050.31 2262.24 1.79 208033_s_at ZFHX3 251.62 377.33 0.67 208072_s_at DGKD 643.24 1083.09 0.59 208636_at ACTN1 8901.27 5517.49 1.61 208637_x_at ACTN1 4560.21 2674.93 1.70 208741_at SAP18 417.47 785.90 0.53 208817_at COMT 2977.90 5221.73 0.57 208818_s_at COMT 7785.54 11616.39 0.67 208820_at PTK2 2672.63 5661.17 0.47 208886_at H1F0 3602.42 5458.05 0.66 208927_at SPOP 1446.19 3506.29 0.41 208930_s_at ILF3 1526.32 851.91 1.79 208931_s_at ILF3 2889.19 1487.14 1.94 208935_s_at LGALS8 629.40 1661.51 0.38 209112_at CDKN1B 3402.13 5608.75 0.61 209163_at CYB561 3181.87 5686.05 0.56 209164_s_at CYB561 1932.32 3314.54 0.58 209222_s_at OSBPL2 1325.26 2032.46 0.65 209333_at ULK1 391.45 852.33 0.46 209337_at PSIP1 2353.57 1209.61 1.95 209339_at SIAH2 1356.54 3941.23 0.34 209426_s_at AMACR /// C1QTNF3 403.70 672.33 0.60 209431_s_at PATZ1 552.22 1022.50 0.54 209464_at AURKB 2121.60 975.80 2.17 209494_s_at PATZ1 834.03 2230.87 0.37 209509_s_at DPAGT1 2491.64 1441.86 1.73 209572_s_at EED 2640.30 1551.74 1.70 209610_s_at SLC1A4 901.71 3145.77 0.29 209611_s_at SLC1A4 287.68 700.86 0.41 209645_s_at ALDH1B1 412.03 235.42 1.75 209786_at HMGN4 3494.59 2077.74 1.68 209787_s_at HMGN4 2391.91 1580.65 1.51 209818_s_at HABP4 210.80 109.02 1.93 209862_s_at CEP57 989.03 596.78 1.66 209891_at SPC25 1442.94 1046.41 1.38 210005_at GART 746.97 403.59 1.85 210008_s_at MRPS12 468.06 252.32 1.86 210010_s_at SLC25A1 3115.13 4350.92 0.72 210075_at 2-Mar 393.67 701.61 0.56 210175_at C2orf3 836.39 420.94 1.99 210191_s_at PHTF1 505.44 285.39 1.77 210463_x_at TRMT1 915.27 435.18 2.10 210519_s_at NQO1 10927.71 15482.26 0.71 210534_s_at B9D1 1143.21 404.63 2.83 210567_s_at SKP2 1235.98 536.92 2.30 210582_s_at LIMK2 923.13 1661.12 0.56 210731_s_at LGALS8 226.38 433.93 0.52 210740_s_at ITPK1 2043.70 3414.83 0.60 210778_s_at MXD4 186.34 385.34 0.48 210816_s_at CYB561 600.12 1074.99 0.56 210817_s_at CALCOCO2 2254.85 5331.42 0.42 211042_x_at MCAM 2247.23 1296.46 1.73 211084_x_at PRKD3 634.76 300.95 2.11 211097_s_at PBX2 459.03 351.83 1.30 211160_x_at ACTN1 3073.28 1627.73 1.89 211391_s_at PATZ1 393.23 724.62 0.54 211392_s_at PATZ1 509.53 1231.63 0.41 211416_x_at GGTLC1 342.04 727.93 0.47 211417_x_at GGT1 609.24 1584.92 0.38 211559_s_at CCNG2 676.39 1708.16 0.40 211600_at PTPRO 9107.62 13876.03 0.66 211686_s_at MAK16 1412.78 942.52 1.50 211919_s_at CXCR4 420.32 1098.55 0.38 212046_x_at MAPK3 980.54 2045.21 0.48 212090_at GRINA 2320.23 4832.64 0.48 212164_at TMEM183A 578.66 856.72 0.68 212174_at AK2 1632.72 791.12 2.06 212246_at MCFD2 1617.13 704.00 2.30 212262_at QKI 1144.55 663.94 1.72 212263_at QKI 1473.39 821.65 1.79 212334_at GNS 2748.41 3752.17 0.73 212335_at GNS 2530.10 3651.61 0.69 212350_at TBC1D1 1090.85 502.72 2.17 212372_at MYH10 3342.76 999.46 3.34 212379_at GART 2117.50 1474.67 1.44 212398_at RDX 1962.39 969.95 2.02 212400_at FAM102A 1323.12 3644.52 0.36 212441_at KIAA0232 1252.44 2524.46 0.50 212442_s_at LASS6 2516.28 5274.60 0.48 212446_s_at LASS6 1540.01 3439.47 0.45 212534_at ZNF24 1277.27 2026.99 0.63 212630_at EXOC3 1308.74 647.57 2.02 212637_s_at WWP1 1230.53 3012.33 0.41 212638_s_at WWP1 3675.08 8071.28 0.46 212662_at PVR 683.24 359.58 1.90 212672_at ATM 437.75 263.13 1.66 212692_s_at LRBA 1177.87 2511.54 0.47 212729_at DLG3 785.76 1268.09 0.62 212811_x_at SLC1A4 844.45 2511.53 0.34 212830_at MEGF9 934.77 2958.10 0.32 212831_at MEGF9 155.45 541.08 0.29 212867_at — 1136.19 2227.11 0.51 212870_at SOS2 1229.65 1672.46 0.74 212944_at SLC5A3 1830.04 978.80 1.87 212960_at TBC1D9 373.87 570.56 0.66 212961_x_at CXorf40B 2197.98 4065.27 0.54 213061_s_at NTAN1 1281.49 1909.39 0.67 213062_at NTAN1 892.30 1293.23 0.69 213067_at MYH10 458.55 111.95 4.10 213120_at UHRF1BP1L 104.93 172.87 0.61 213143_at C2orf72 185.69 612.60 0.30 213234_at KIAA1467 534.72 925.40 0.58 213302_at PFAS 1017.30 371.15 2.74 213315_x_at CXorf40A 2363.89 4412.25 0.54 213320_at PRMT3 1547.85 939.68 1.65 213342_at YAP1 1816.38 1086.94 1.67 213427_at RPP40 2211.57 1092.74 2.02 213508_at C14orf147 1353.68 2182.28 0.62 213587_s_at ATP6V0E2 2309.61 4200.65 0.55 213710_s_at CALM1 580.31 1082.24 0.54 213724_s_at PDK2 241.25 1032.78 0.23 214011_s_at NOP16 3261.83 1641.71 1.99 214062_x_at NFKBIB 374.27 216.01 1.73 214112_s_at CXorf40A /// CXorf40B 1712.93 3494.77 0.49 214119_s_at FKBP1A 6122.28 3537.99 1.73 214121_x_at PDLIM7 346.14 160.97 2.15 214169_at — 229.37 136.31 1.68 214266_s_at PDLIM7 295.78 170.44 1.74 214357_at C1orf105 112.20 176.57 0.64 214444_s_at PVR 420.28 250.00 1.68 214543_x_at QKI 833.97 514.00 1.62 214616_at HIST1H3E 231.38 368.92 0.63 214771_x_at MPRIP 4481.82 2830.97 1.58 214785_at VPS13A 586.05 431.55 1.36 215136_s_at EXOSC8 2618.06 1460.25 1.79 215236_s_at PICALM 1673.85 1071.61 1.56 215285_s_at PHTF1 402.97 205.70 1.96 215696_s_at SEC16A 3292.51 6301.74 0.52 215707_s_at PRNP 2225.55 622.59 3.57 215728_s_at ACOT7 1022.54 609.21 1.68 215747_s_at RCC1 /// SNHG3-RCC1 1077.79 612.67 1.76 215921_at NPIPL3 292.18 560.15 0.52 215990_s_at BCL6 221.60 391.03 0.57 216044_x_at FAM69A 634.57 316.99 2.00 216247_at — 149.98 358.90 0.42 216266_s_at ARFGEF1 1402.63 2645.82 0.53 216942_s_at CD58 1532.52 700.53 2.19 217200_x_at CYB561 2836.40 4573.96 0.62 217456_x_at HLA-E 1191.55 775.60 1.54 217595_at GSPT1 296.34 568.98 0.52 217750_s_at UBE2Z 2784.82 5640.81 0.49 218065_s_at TMEM9B 2833.39 4064.17 0.70 218081_at C20orf27 783.35 489.78 1.60 218096_at AGPAT5 2359.93 1359.25 1.74 218105_s_at MRPL4 2819.61 1413.50 1.99 218156_s_at TSR1 3211.84 1473.71 2.18 218164_at SPATA20 1166.64 2456.68 0.47 218194_at REXO2 6691.08 3649.67 1.83 218237_s_at SLC38A1 4928.07 6764.66 0.73 218244_at NOL8 1644.40 904.42 1.82 218245_at TSKU 1332.04 3417.92 0.39 218288_s_at CCDC90B 2357.90 1564.05 1.51 218307_at RSAD1 704.21 1321.22 0.53 218379_at RBM7 1980.06 1008.29 1.96 218394_at ROGDI 805.28 1524.93 0.53 218397_at FANCL 1669.84 1222.88 1.37 218471_s_at BBS1 699.44 1012.90 0.69 218561_s_at LYRM4 1859.34 920.09 2.02 218566_s_at CHORDC1 4746.99 2591.08 1.83 218597_s_at CISD1 3530.54 2047.88 1.72 218611_at IER5 4816.79 1779.73 2.71 218662_s_at NCAPG 1373.80 812.77 1.69 218663_at NCAPG 1475.88 919.52 1.61 218684_at LRRC8D 2709.07 1700.79 1.59 218715_at UTP6 1445.13 946.97 1.53 218741_at CENPM 796.92 636.42 1.25 218770_s_at TMEM39B 542.47 333.04 1.63 218826_at SLC35F2 1826.06 706.87 2.58 218828_at PLSCR3 781.55 369.16 2.12 218886_at PAK1IP1 1524.31 729.13 2.09 218890_x_at MRPL35 1836.86 1138.57 1.61 218978_s_at SLC25A37 155.08 71.70 2.16 218984_at PUS7 2760.81 1583.40 1.74 218997_at POLR1E 979.57 479.70 2.04 219100_at OBFC1 691.87 1143.89 0.60 219164_s_at ATG2B 334.82 577.67 0.58 219189_at FBXL6 590.52 1069.56 0.55 219223_at C9orf7 468.14 837.76 0.56 219234_x_at SCRN3 165.74 273.30 0.61 219306_at KIF15 830.44 638.08 1.30 219338_s_at LRRC49 253.82 195.34 1.30 219342_at CASD1 648.38 1089.73 0.59 219347_at NUDT15 2246.67 1346.99 1.67 219374_s_at ALG9 929.89 460.41 2.02 219401_at XYLT2 266.60 584.56 0.46 219626_at MAP7D3 432.27 268.30 1.61 219646_at DEF8 990.73 470.12 2.11 219687_at HHAT 127.81 259.94 0.49 219741_x_at ZNF552 499.26 957.32 0.52 219760_at LIN7B 177.83 284.37 0.63 219793_at SNX16 275.90 1166.67 0.24 219913_s_at CRNKL1 950.01 1848.59 0.51 219929_s_at ZFYVE21 940.02 1480.35 0.63 220155_s_at BRD9 2699.27 986.68 2.74 220239_at KLHL7 1107.25 598.45 1.85 220258_s_at WRAP53 531.41 287.23 1.85 220576_at PGAP1 139.50 77.11 1.81 220669_at OTUD4 142.46 80.53 1.77 220936_s_at H2AFJ 129.55 334.45 0.39 221012_s_at TRIM8 1136.79 2387.23 0.48 221249_s_at FAM117A 518.79 1338.09 0.39 221273_s_at RNF208 244.62 709.43 0.34 221517_s_at MED17 1833.03 1109.77 1.65 221519_at FBXW4 794.68 1153.05 0.69 221580_s_at TAF1D 3585.82 1659.41 2.16 221649_s_at PPAN 1166.92 470.09 2.48 221656_s_at ARHGEF10L 312.12 494.15 0.63 221685_s_at CCDC99 2319.60 1659.60 1.40 221750_at HMGCS1 1350.72 1870.51 0.72 221756_at PIK3IP1 179.60 390.95 0.46 221869_at ZNF512B 576.52 1074.18 0.54 221882_s_at TMEM8A 1294.04 2348.54 0.55 222160_at AKAP8L 70.00 157.18 0.45 222273_at PAPOLG 267.18 170.37 1.57 222303_at — 266.14 73.26 3.63 38340_at HIP1R /// LOC100294412 1651.09 2702.89 0.61 41329_at SCYL3 434.73 1064.19 0.41 45653_at KCTD13 418.91 617.45 0.68 50314_i_at C20orf27 1730.34 1068.42 1.62 61874_at C9orf7 814.47 1454.33 0.56 62987_r_at CACNG4 1081.92 2884.69 0.38 74694_s_at RABEP2 753.65 1437.01 0.52

TABLE 7 DX probeID Gene.Symbol mean_sens mean_resis fold.change 200658_s_at PHB 4771.63 6938.55 0.69 200659_s_at PHB 1163.81 2229.07 0.52 200664_s_at DNAJB1 4050.77 3080.96 1.31 200671_s_at SPTBN1 572.08 267.47 2.14 200709_at FKBP1A 10371.15 6242.07 1.66 200755_s_at CALU 4187.67 1811.87 2.31 200756_x_at CALU 3107.31 1202.26 2.58 200757_s_at CALU 6990.06 3425.65 2.04 200810_s_at CIRBP 2751.00 4450.16 0.62 200864_s_at RAB11A 2000.85 2801.71 0.71 200890_s_at SSR1 2752.35 1894.95 1.45 200895_s_at FKBP4 5086.86 8438.69 0.60 200935_at CALR 1293.36 874.49 1.48 201041_s_at DUSP1 2700.88 1232.74 2.19 201237_at CAPZA2 3601.08 2035.51 1.77 201329_s_at ETS2 706.14 249.58 2.83 201464_x_at JUN 3456.26 1669.92 2.07 201482_at QSOX1 1896.29 705.64 2.69 201559_s_at CLIC4 2621.71 1176.73 2.23 201631_s_at IER3 12245.47 6774.56 1.81 201658_at ARL1 1264.33 2072.43 0.61 201886_at DCAF11 1103.86 1494.71 0.74 201900_s_at AKR1A1 2976.98 3869.20 0.77 201945_at FURIN 618.42 308.32 2.01 201954_at ARPC1B 7961.89 3244.41 2.45 201976_s_at MYO10 2953.70 1129.83 2.61 202087_s_at CTSL1 2609.35 1141.56 2.29 202129_s_at RIOK3 1623.61 966.25 1.68 202185_at PLOD3 4569.92 2376.31 1.92 202187_s_at PPP2R5A 1493.55 2048.84 0.73 202290_at PDAP1 5359.02 3043.86 1.76 202321_at GGPS1 498.70 1040.54 0.48 202431_s_at MYC 4907.91 2554.67 1.92 202558_s_at HSPA13 1719.29 1184.86 1.45 202590_s_at PDK2 300.09 754.78 0.40 202623_at EAPP 1832.81 2350.24 0.78 202636_at RNF103 2519.83 3991.30 0.63 202665_s_at WIPF1 396.54 123.03 3.22 202696_at OXSR1 2664.83 1417.73 1.88 202708_s_at HIST2H2BE 760.32 1879.94 0.40 202727_s_at IFNGR1 3352.54 1782.29 1.88 202762_at ROCK2 1356.32 884.60 1.53 202862_at FAH 950.68 1633.14 0.58 202900_s_at NUP88 2358.21 1712.91 1.38 202942_at ETFB 1754.73 3138.64 0.56 202964_s_at RFX5 947.94 1286.82 0.74 202982_s_at ACOT1 /// ACOT2 1074.32 2042.57 0.53 203023_at NOP16 2039.92 1424.71 1.43 203072_at MYO1E 515.37 292.30 1.76 203179_at GALT 507.34 629.94 0.81 203188_at B3GNT1 867.59 1383.67 0.63 203245_s_at NCRNA00094 559.29 833.77 0.67 203313_s_at TGIF1 2598.74 1837.02 1.41 203513_at SPG11 1670.78 2439.85 0.68 203754_s_at BRF1 169.61 344.35 0.49 203758_at CTSO 289.42 549.54 0.53 203793_x_at PCGF2 396.07 870.80 0.45 203826_s_at PITPNM1 483.73 401.28 1.21 203929_s_at MAPT 123.84 479.34 0.26 203968_s_at CDC6 3638.19 1743.33 2.09 203991_s_at KDM6A 260.81 342.87 0.76 204008_at DNAL4 334.88 514.19 0.65 204048_s_at PHACTR2 1292.30 696.58 1.86 204049_s_at PHACTR2 1382.58 867.26 1.59 204280_at RGS14 142.73 215.41 0.66 204294_at AMT 215.06 369.88 0.58 204357_s_at LIMK1 245.64 115.15 2.13 204365_s_at REEP1 242.08 545.39 0.44 204382_at NAT9 637.78 926.90 0.69 204395_s_at GRK5 245.09 122.60 2.00 204453_at ZNF84 515.17 798.82 0.64 204509_at CA12 100.73 210.96 0.48 204510_at CDC7 887.28 1309.94 0.68 204538_x_at NPIP 1910.29 2522.06 0.76 204541_at SEC14L2 188.43 341.35 0.55 204562_at IRF4 106.16 148.57 0.71 204693_at CDC42EP1 2222.66 769.41 2.89 204859_s_at APAF1 316.48 550.54 0.57 204906_at RPS6KA2 566.43 302.52 1.87 204958_at PLK3 272.34 123.40 2.21 204966_at BAI2 259.69 485.29 0.54 204969_s_at RDX 642.55 314.05 2.05 205017_s_at MBNL2 564.86 261.44 2.16 205018_s_at MBNL2 1368.43 650.45 2.10 205034_at CCNE2 1645.87 2608.95 0.63 205059_s_at IDUA 241.03 491.60 0.49 205193_at MAFF 535.19 322.33 1.66 205354_at GAMT 272.47 600.60 0.45 205500_at C5 93.33 192.44 0.48 205594_at ZNF652 1039.22 3137.33 0.33 205607_s_at SCYL3 400.25 657.70 0.61 205617_at PRRG2 309.13 480.61 0.64 205756_s_at F8 313.14 442.98 0.71 205791_x_at ZNF230 126.42 192.19 0.66 205796_at TCP11L1 423.42 196.20 2.16 206048_at OVOL2 120.61 175.66 0.69 206170_at ADRB2 333.19 163.00 2.04 206175_x_at ZNF222 105.11 188.00 0.56 206274_s_at CROCC 89.68 154.64 0.58 206412_at FER 317.99 194.19 1.64 206417_at CNGA1 97.52 244.71 0.40 206491_s_at NAPA 1936.06 2855.97 0.68 206523_at CYTH3 253.47 125.13 2.03 206527_at ABAT 247.05 435.41 0.57 206533_at CHRNA5 571.47 392.38 1.46 206648_at ZNF571 139.45 260.68 0.53 207133_x_at ALPK1 74.39 145.89 0.51 207143_at CDK6 242.35 77.17 3.14 207300_s_at F7 113.20 328.34 0.34 207467_x_at CAST 5767.82 3246.00 1.78 207711_at C20orf117 232.50 384.14 0.61 208078_s_at SIK1 1530.80 734.28 2.08 208158_s_at OSBPL1A 1642.75 705.78 2.33 208296_x_at TNFAIP8 1552.29 494.87 3.14 208372_s_at LIMK1 262.71 151.76 1.73 208527_x_at HIST1H2BE 1183.68 1921.27 0.62 208637_x_at ACTN1 5874.82 2910.83 2.02 208741_at SAP18 385.82 618.72 0.62 208744_x_at HSPH1 3646.24 2928.94 1.24 208751_at NAPA 986.57 1563.58 0.63 208783_s_at CD46 5447.93 7754.41 0.70 208820_at PTK2 2597.45 5226.91 0.50 208853_s_at CANX 6626.47 4775.53 1.39 208878_s_at PAK2 1594.24 2181.61 0.73 208908_s_at CAST 3708.48 1820.17 2.04 208920_at SRI 769.28 334.90 2.30 208930_s_at ILF3 1409.35 900.18 1.57 208931_s_at ILF3 2680.79 1698.80 1.58 208933_s_at LGALS8 1167.02 2833.04 0.41 208934_s_at LGALS8 1902.05 3717.48 0.51 208935_s_at LGALS8 517.45 1532.87 0.34 208936_x_at LGALS8 1280.18 2734.67 0.47 208938_at PRCC 1695.20 2156.32 0.79 208955_at DUT 1085.92 1465.19 0.74 209065_at UQCRB 712.86 1084.72 0.66 209194_at CETN2 2717.09 3446.97 0.79 209195_s_at ADCY6 1167.99 1719.66 0.68 209203_s_at BICD2 560.17 382.29 1.47 209213_at CBR1 1682.29 504.69 3.33 209250_at DEGS1 2326.01 4256.58 0.55 209333_at ULK1 361.99 634.35 0.57 209373_at MALL 2897.12 600.79 4.82 209380_s_at ABCC5 1684.66 2240.32 0.75 209431_s_at PATZ1 538.41 905.34 0.59 209485_s_at OSBPL1A 1487.24 456.59 3.26 209494_s_at PATZ1 848.32 1717.42 0.49 209575_at IL10RB 1153.30 688.40 1.68 209654_at KIAA0947 1916.59 1282.17 1.49 209799_at PRKAA1 983.23 555.65 1.77 209947_at UBAP2L 639.83 1120.12 0.57 210026_s_at CARD10 992.42 535.51 1.85 210186_s_at FKBP1A 3280.01 1814.66 1.81 210191_s_at PHTF1 483.44 388.40 1.24 210260_s_at TNFAIP8 1324.02 450.51 2.94 210278_s_at AP4S1 245.10 357.17 0.69 210457_x_at HMGA1 732.79 237.93 3.08 210580_x_at SULT1A3 /// SULT1A4 1663.52 2308.19 0.72 210719_s_at HMG20B 1999.27 2446.02 0.82 210720_s_at NECAB3 710.85 1073.29 0.66 210740_s_at ITPK1 1735.22 2850.02 0.61 210778_s_at MXD4 214.21 360.81 0.59 210935_s_at WDR1 2993.19 1884.29 1.59 211012_s_at GOLGA6L4 /// PML 315.39 114.57 2.75 211051_s_at EXTL3 290.91 171.11 1.70 211084_x_at PRKD3 733.36 339.26 2.16 211160_x_at ACTN1 4874.18 1842.39 2.65 211332_x_at HFE 264.41 412.33 0.64 211574_s_at CD46 1945.69 2499.36 0.78 211599_x_at MET 2026.86 631.67 3.21 211600_at PTPRO 9594.04 12471.45 0.77 211672_s_at ARPC4 2335.77 1516.74 1.54 211676_s_at IFNGR1 1950.54 989.72 1.97 211681_s_at PDLIM5 1185.68 698.51 1.70 211686_s_at MAK16 1664.55 903.57 1.84 211691_x_at — 73.33 158.13 0.46 211954_s_at IPO5 4278.91 2756.91 1.55 211955_at IPO5 3093.72 2012.86 1.54 212046_x_at MAPK3 964.02 1656.42 0.58 212053_at PDXDC1 2926.14 3665.62 0.80 212071_s_at SPTBN1 7527.92 4234.92 1.78 212150_at EFR3A 1836.92 2542.76 0.72 212239_at PIK3R1 510.54 931.80 0.55 212240_s_at PIK3R1 574.86 1371.15 0.42 212246_at MCFD2 1648.66 877.06 1.88 212262_at QKI 1285.99 770.59 1.67 212263_at QKI 1469.15 954.88 1.54 212350_at TBC1D1 1330.50 845.52 1.57 212367_at FEM1B 825.92 1181.21 0.70 212398_at RDX 2229.42 1403.96 1.59 212400_at FAM102A 1305.19 2493.25 0.52 212446_s_at LASS6 1375.16 2593.38 0.53 212458_at SPRED2 1346.07 2177.91 0.62 212492_s_at KDM4B 985.65 2385.63 0.41 212495_at KDM4B 469.80 1127.68 0.42 212496_s_at KDM4B 1073.17 2478.23 0.43 212508_at MOAP1 1524.55 3036.38 0.50 212522_at PDE8A 2451.66 1287.46 1.90 212586_at CAST 5149.85 2062.46 2.50 212593_s_at PDCD4 1816.48 6878.14 0.26 212596_s_at HMGXB4 1143.74 1660.45 0.69 212616_at CHD9 1131.23 3064.62 0.37 212668_at SMURF1 187.57 84.78 2.21 212692_s_at LRBA 1162.25 2269.30 0.51 212772_s_at ABCA2 494.57 750.27 0.66 212779_at KIAA1109 666.22 981.42 0.68 212810_s_at SLC1A4 424.68 716.67 0.59 212811_x_at SLC1A4 1057.17 1593.17 0.66 212830_at MEGF9 770.96 1720.69 0.45 212856_at GRAMD4 682.10 1167.59 0.58 212870_at SOS2 1148.16 1383.22 0.83 213049_at RALGAPA1 1022.76 1469.67 0.70 213093_at PRKCA 814.10 391.60 2.08 213137_s_at PTPN2 1195.30 702.91 1.70 213198_at ACVR1B 961.89 1342.00 0.72 213224_s_at NCRNA00081 391.03 1004.39 0.39 213246_at C14orf109 2166.73 3164.12 0.68 213305_s_at PPP2R5C 1632.48 2112.07 0.77 213315_x_at CXorf40A 2280.04 3671.71 0.62 213446_s_at IQGAP1 1560.08 929.17 1.68 213459_at RPL37A 346.68 495.17 0.70 213464_at LOC100291393 /// SHC2 57.72 126.41 0.46 213508_at C14orf147 1162.88 1793.19 0.65 213546_at DKFZP58611420 586.97 1280.62 0.46 213763_at HIPK2 322.29 532.80 0.60 213784_at IFT27 202.27 342.40 0.59 213807_x_at MET 1785.51 517.92 3.45 213820_s_at STARD5 161.91 361.45 0.45 214011_s_at NOP16 3049.02 2099.91 1.45 214033_at ABCC6 341.59 673.54 0.51 214035_x_at LOC399491 2252.95 3250.72 0.69 214048_at MBD4 252.32 403.66 0.63 214083_at PPP2R5C 215.35 296.66 0.73 214109_at LRBA 909.30 1816.34 0.50 214119_s_at FKBP1A 6610.07 3575.29 1.85 214455_at HIST1H2BC 272.04 688.00 0.40 214542_x_at HISTH2AI 248.31 378.48 0.66 214543_x_at QKI 815.14 511.51 1.59 214616_at HIST1H3E 257.02 347.49 0.74 214802_at EXOC7 150.87 235.85 0.64 214845_s_at CALU 3788.43 1458.08 2.60 214855_s_at RALGAPA1 778.83 1042.32 0.75 214870_x_at LOC100288442 /// 2367.03 3268.70 0.72 LOC339047 /// NPIP 215236_s_at PICALM 1866.03 1212.38 1.54 215281_x_at POGZ 177.90 215.90 0.82 215696_s_at SEC16A 3250.97 5475.34 0.59 215706_x_at ZYX 2973.13 1432.91 2.07 215921_at NPIPL3 222.61 427.00 0.52 216092_s_at SLC7A8 403.29 2165.04 0.19 216242_x_at POLR2J2 1942.61 1126.67 1.72 216247_at — 152.02 302.21 0.50 216604_s_at SLC7A8 149.59 1301.65 0.11 217363_x_at — 191.41 381.10 0.50 217677_at PLEKHA2 249.15 169.09 1.47 217744_s_at PERP 8421.03 3869.52 2.18 217756_x_at SERF2 10307.73 11728.03 0.88 217824_at UBE2J1 735.70 334.83 2.20 218065_s_at TMEM9B 2749.33 3305.73 0.83 218081_at C20orf27 827.70 561.02 1.48 218096_at AGPAT5 2634.35 1442.14 1.83 218105_s_at MRPL4 2806.69 1542.51 1.82 218156_s_at TSR1 2980.30 1867.75 1.60 218164_at SPATA20 1057.32 1998.23 0.53 218178_s_at CHMP1B 3283.19 1806.35 1.82 218204_s_at FYCO1 562.39 811.18 0.69 218254_s_at SAR1B 2878.01 4125.54 0.70 218280_x_at HIST2H2AA3 /// 2121.24 4286.85 0.49 HIST2H2AA4 218285_s_at BDH2 699.28 1219.58 0.57 218291_at ROBLD3 1733.49 2258.64 0.77 218306_s_at HERC1 844.45 1151.31 0.73 218307_at RSAD1 696.46 1202.32 0.58 218323_at RHOT1 1595.14 2391.07 0.67 218344_s_at RCOR3 472.75 757.75 0.62 218352_at RCBTB1 592.58 1011.39 0.59 218417_s_at SLC48A1 533.22 1205.71 0.44 218487_at ALAD 516.31 911.70 0.57 218489_s_at ALAD 353.41 565.18 0.63 218530_at FHOD1 840.00 1486.27 0.57 218561_s_at LYRM4 1731.52 1243.01 1.39 218611_at IER5 4404.75 2125.30 2.07 218788_s_at SMYD3 835.77 1484.33 0.56 218815_s_at TMEM51 437.55 272.83 1.60 218841_at ASB8 303.14 446.12 0.68 218916_at ZNF768 559.21 779.31 0.72 219019_at LRDD 294.72 501.84 0.59 219028_at HIPK2 190.23 438.55 0.43 219044_at THNSL2 229.60 385.40 0.60 219061_s_at LAGE3 2572.26 3466.64 0.74 219145_at LPHN1 579.09 913.15 0.63 219155_at PITPNC1 503.69 862.60 0.58 219164_s_at ATG2B 313.01 552.41 0.57 219165_at PDLIM2 1940.99 461.91 4.20 219223_at C9orf7 484.45 682.15 0.71 219234_x_at SCRN3 156.89 223.01 0.70 219236_at PAQR6 270.74 756.98 0.36 219255_x_at IL17RB 425.34 766.26 0.56 219266_at ZNF350 327.45 690.96 0.47 219268_at ETNK2 342.16 1302.29 0.26 219396_s_at NEIL1 113.33 221.66 0.51 219401_at XYLT2 278.58 451.99 0.62 219428_s_at PXMP4 1800.16 2390.21 0.75 219475_at OSGIN1 90.92 321.14 0.28 219500_at CLCF1 461.52 289.55 1.59 219520_s_at WWC3 918.15 1913.60 0.48 219741_x_at ZNF552 455.97 935.60 0.49 219749_at SH2D4A 875.88 324.35 2.70 219760_at LIN7B 158.55 263.24 0.60 220992_s_at C1orf25 408.96 502.87 0.81 221012_s_at TRIM8 1041.60 2487.02 0.42 221019_s_at COLEC12 108.93 507.01 0.21 221196_x_at BRCC3 1879.02 2495.02 0.75 221213_s_at ZNF280D 112.66 207.80 0.54 221215_s_at RIPK4 1965.00 839.80 2.34 221222_s_at C1orf56 451.06 708.44 0.64 221249_s_at FAM117A 581.55 1124.71 0.52 221273_s_at RNF208 234.17 626.68 0.37 221379_at — 140.42 77.68 1.81 221473_x_at SERINC3 4103.34 2423.31 1.69 221501_x_at LOC339047 1957.40 2934.88 0.67 221519_at FBXW4 655.48 1095.67 0.60 221718_s_at AKAP13 616.96 384.73 1.60 221820_s_at MYST1 944.14 1539.14 0.61 221864_at ORAI3 400.25 955.20 0.42 221869_at ZNF512B 569.38 1067.11 0.53 221881_s_at CLIC4 1434.81 655.78 2.19 221904_at FAM131A 569.93 850.01 0.67 221920_s_at SLC25A37 618.04 256.93 2.41 221992_at NPIPL2 301.90 592.50 0.51 222018_at NACA 320.88 521.90 0.61 222024_s_at AKAP13 396.81 296.15 1.34 222075_s_at OAZ3 242.56 595.76 0.41 222199_s_at BIN3 658.47 456.99 1.44 222209_s_at TMEM135 1264.21 1850.68 0.68 222303_at — 267.58 90.91 2.94 222362_at AGFG2 155.50 220.04 0.71 222380_s_at PDCD6 461.07 843.54 0.55 32837_at AGPAT2 1251.19 1455.68 0.86 35160_at LDB1 360.90 790.69 0.46 36711_at MAFF 1444.18 648.71 2.23 41329_at SCYL3 466.02 831.99 0.56 41858_at PGAP2 850.88 1345.58 0.63 45653_at KCTD13 365.19 569.56 0.64 48106_at SLC48A1 602.63 1475.79 0.41 50314_i_at C20or127 1711.06 1306.31 1.31 52940_at LOC100294402 /// SIGIRR 970.78 1460.21 0.66 57516_at ZNF764 242.95 443.29 0.55 59437_at C9orf116 269.74 466.95 0.58 61874_at C9orf7 752.82 1102.65 0.68 62987_r_at CACNG4 1110.21 2340.08 0.47 64371_at SFRS14 279.11 398.71 0.70 74694_s_at RABEP2 769.56 1107.10 0.70

Example 2 Identification and Validation of TFEC MultiGene Predictor (MGP)

42 breast cancer cell lines were tested for their responses to the combination of docetaxel (T), fluorouracil (F), epirubicin (E) and cyclophosphamide (C) in vitro, and their gene expression profiles were used to derive a predictor for sensitivity to TFEC. This MGP was applied to predict the patient chemotherapy responses in US Oncology Study 02-103 clinical trial. The prediction procedure was performed blindly without knowledge of patient clinical outcomes and the prediction results were evaluated independently.

Methods Patients and Samples

US Oncology 02-103 was a phase II clinical trial on women with stage II/III breast cancer. A majority of patients whose tumors were HER2-negative received 4 cycles of FEC followed by 4 cycles of TX, whereas most patients whose tumors were HER2-positive received trastuzumab (H) in addition to FEC/TX. HER2 status was assessed by IHC or FISH. IHC ≧3+ was considered positive and IHC 1+ or 2+ was confirmed by FISH. To conduct the present study, Institutional review board approval was obtained from US Oncology Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Precision Therapeutics and all patients signed informed consent for genomic analysis of their specimens. Pretreatment FNA specimens were obtained and immediately placed in RNAIater (Ambion, Austin, Tex.), and the FNA specimens were used for RNA extraction and purification. Gene expression profiling was performed using the Affymetrix HG-U133A microarray platform (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, Calif.).

In Vitro Chemosensitivity Testing of Breast Cancer Cell Lines

Forty two breast cancer cell lines were obtained from either ATCC (Manassas, Va.) or DSMZ (Braunschweig, Germany). All cell lines were maintained in RPMI 1640 (Mediatech, Herndon, Va.) containing 10% FBS (HyClone, Logan, Utah) at 37° C. in 5% CO₂. Upon reaching approximately 80% confluence, each cell line was trypsinized and seeded into 384-well microtiter plates (Corning, Lowell, Mass.) at 8000 cells/mL and used immediately for in vitro chemoresponse testing.

The cell lines were treated with the combination of T, F, E and C to simulate the US oncology 02-103 treatment protocol of FEC followed by TX since X is an oral prodrug converted to F in vivo. Ten serial dilutions for TFEC, along with control well without drug exposure were prepared in 10% RPMI 1640 and added in triplicate to each cell line. Each cell line was incubated with the various concentrations of TFEC for 72 h at 37° C. in 5% CO₂. Non-adherent cells and the medium were then removed from each well and the remaining adherent cells were fixed in 95% ethanol and stained with DAPI (Molecular Probes, Eugene, Oreg.). An automated microscope was used to count the number of stained cells remaining after drug treatment. A survival fraction (SF) representing the ratio of cells that survived the drug treatment was calculated using the formula: SF=Mean_(drug)/Mean_(control), where Mean_(drug) is the average of the number of surviving cells in the three replicates, and Mean_(control) is the average number of living cells in the control wells. The SF was calculated for treatment with TFEC at each of the 10 doses. The area under the dose-response curve (AUC), which is the summation of SF values over the 10 doses, was used for quantifying TFEC sensitivity of the tumor cells. A lower AUC score indicated greater sensitivity to the test drug.

Development of the TFEC Multi-Gene Predictor

Genome-wide gene expression profiles for the 42 breast cancer cell lines were measured using Affymetrix HG-U133 Plus 2.0 array, and the microarray data were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus database (Accession number GSE12777). Background adjustments and quantitative normalization were performed by the software package RMA, and then the data were log 2-transformed. Non-specific gene filtering was applied to filter out probes which have small variation or low expression values across all cell lines. The gene expression values of each cell line were normalized to mean zero and standard deviation one.

The TFEC MGP was developed using a supervised principal components regression [Bair et al., Prediction by Supervised Principal Components Journal of the American Statistical Association 2006, 101(473):119-137; Bair and Tibshirani, Semi-Supervised Methods to Predict Patient Survival from Gene Expression Data PLoS Biol 2004, 2(4):e108]. The process had four steps:

(1) Compute the univariate linear regression coefficient for each gene where the response variable was the cell line's AUC scores to TFEC and the predictor variable was the expression values of each gene.

(2) Select genes whose absolute regression coefficient is larger than a threshold estimated by the cross-validation.

(3) Compute the first principal component of the expression value matrix of selected genes.

(4) Use the first principal component in a linear regression model to predict the patient's chemotherapy responses. A lower prediction score corresponded to a greater sensitivity to chemotherapy, and therefore greater likelihood of achieving pCR.

TFEC MGP Validation

The receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis was employed and the area under the curve (AU-ROC) was used to evaluate the performance of prediction. The logistic regression analysis was applied to determine the independent function of the TFEC MGP adjusted for age, tumor size, node involvement as well as estrogen receptor status (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) status. To control the confounding effect of H, analyses were done separately for patients who were treated with FEC/TX and those who were treated with FEC/TX plus H.

Results

Derivation of the MGP from Breast Cell Lines

In vitro chemosensitivities to TFEC for 42 breast cancer cell lines are listed below:

Cell line AUC AU565 3.627349 BT20 4.79883 BT474 6.730071 BT483 6.285304 BT549 4.153593 CAL120 3.656632 CAL51 2.796302 CAL851 4.281127 CAMA1 4.656248 EFM19 6.991756 EFM192A 4.848844 EVSAT 3.411344 HCC1143 5.067855 HCC1395 3.853306 HCC1419 6.826185 HCC1428 6.707 HCC1500 7.265938 HCC1569 5.014099 HCC1806 2.725509 HCC1937 4.490156 HCC1954 3.516476 HCC202 6.812468 HCC38 3.821732 HDQP1 4.106369 JIMT1 4.113162 KPL1 2.830166 MCF7 4.761028 MDAMB134VI 5.056164 MDAMB175VII 7.941894 MDAMB231 3.635202 MDAMB361 7.734985 MDAMB415 4.447872 MDAMB436 4.678117 MDAMB453 6.268773 MDAMB468 3.178351 MFM223 3.107546 SKBR3 2.431297 SW527 3.012309 T47D 3.791712 UACC812 2.710829 ZR751 6.974679 ZR7530 6.429155

Two hundred ninety-one genes (listed in Table 8) that were highly associated with in vitro drug responses were selected to develop the MGP. To understand the function of these 291 genes, we computed the overlap between these genes and the c2 collection (curated gene sets) of molecular signatures database v3.0 provided by broad institute. The p-values of each curated gene sets were calculated by Fisher's exact test. Of 291 genes used in the TFEC MGP, 68 genes were found to be related to BRCA network, and 38 genes related to CHECH2 network, and 40 genes related to Myc oncogenic transcription factor.

Clinical Validation of TFEC MGP

A total of 192 pretreatment FNA specimens were obtained from US Oncology Research (Houston, Tex.). More than 1 μg of RNA, which was defined as the minimum requirement for total RNA for gene expression profiling, was isolated from each of 145 specimens. Of these, 95 unique specimens from 95 patients were included in the final analysis. Reasons for exclusion included low-quality RNA (n=26), failure for cRNA generation (n=12), failure to meet quality control standards for array analysis (n=8), and violation of chemotherapy treatment protocol (n=4). Of the 95 patients eligible for the study, 66 received treatment with FEC/TX and 29 received treatment with FEC/TX with H after the FNA specimens were obtained and processed for gene expression profiling.

The performance of the TFEC MGP stratified by H treatment status was evaluated for predicting pCR using ROC curves (FIG. 5). The AU-ROC was 0.73 (95% CI: 0.61-0.86) for patients treated with FEC/TX and the MGP score was significantly different between pCR and RD (FIG. 5A, Wilcoxon test p<0.01). In contrast, for the FEC/TX with H group, the AU-ROC was 0.43 (95% CI: 0.20-0.66) and no difference was detected in the MGP scores between the two groups (FIG. 5B, Wilcoxon test p=0.57). We further stratified the data from the FEC/TX group based on ER status and ROC analysis resulted in AU-ROC of 0.62 (95% CI: 0.40-0.85) for the ER-positive subgroup, and 0.74 (95% CI: 0.56-0.91) for the ER-negative subgroup (FIGS. 5C and 5D), suggesting that MGP might have better performance for ER-negative tumors compared to ER-positive tumors, although this difference was not statistically significant.

Logistic regression models were also used to further assess the correlation of the TFEC MGP and pCR. Univariate analysis revealed that the MGP prediction score for the FEC/TX group was significantly associated with pCR. Multivariate analysis adjusted for the clinical covariates stage, tumor size, lymph node status, tumor grade, ER status, PR status and HER2 status indicated that MGP prediction score was more associated with pCR than other clinical covariates. However, regression analysis for the FEC/TX with H group revealed no significant association between the TFEC MGP and pCR.

Discussion

We developed a TFEC MGP from breast cancer cell lines by incorporating cell line responses to drug treatment and their respective gene expression profiling data. Validation of this MGP using clinical data from patients enrolled in US Oncology 02-103 indicated that this cell line-based MGP was able to differentiate between patients who would experience pCR and those who would have RD as a result of neoadjuvant treatment with FEC followed by TX. This result demonstrates the feasibility of using chemoresponse data and gene expression profiling from breast cancer cell lines to predict clinical responses of patients to a specific chemotherapy treatment.

These results differ from other previous studies that developed MGPs from NCI-60 cancer cell lines [Potti A, et al. Genomic signatures to guide the use of chemotherapeutics Nat Med 2006, 12(11):1294-1300]. Our success may be attributed to the use of breast cancer cell lines rather than NCI-60 cell lines for training the data. NCI-60 cell lines include cells from different histological origins. Based on the concept that drug resistance mechanisms could be consistent across different histological origins, NCI-60 cell lines have been widely used for studying drug responses and developing drug-specific phamacogenomic predictors. However this concept may not be entirely true and it is not clear to what extent the various histological origins may confound the discovery of MGP.

It is well known that chemotherapy response in breast cancer is affected by clinical/biologic variables such as ER, PR, HER2 and tumor grade. Most of MGPs currently available tend to capture similar information as those clinical/biologic phenotypes and some of them were also able to provide additional predictive value. In particularly, it is more difficult to develop MGP in ER-negative patients. Of note, the subset analysis stratified by ER status revealed that our MGP may encode information independent of ER status.

It is notable that the MGP developed for the FEC/TX treatment arm could not predict the pCR for patients in the FEC/TX plus H treatment arm. The AU-ROC of the MGP for FEC/TX plus H arm was no better than random guess. This is a reasonable result because trastuzumab can improve the chemotherapy response for both HER2+ and HER2− patients, and our MGP did not consider the effect of trastuzumab. This result indicates that the MGP may have the potential to be regimen-specific.

The size of training data also plays a crucial role in determining the power of MGP in prediction. Liedtke et al. developed an MGP from 19 breast cancer cell lines that had an AU-ROC of approximately 0.5 [Liedtke et al., Response to neoadjuvant therapy and long-term survival in patients with triple-negative breast cancer J. Clin. Oncol. 2008, 26(8):1275-1281]. The present study involved 39 breast cancer cell lines and achieved an AU-ROC of approximately 0.7.

In summary, we used chemosensitivity and gene expression profiling data from breast cancer cell lines to generate an MGP to TFEC treatment. This MGP was validated to be predictive of clinical response in patients treated sequentially with FEC followed by TX, and particularly in tumors that are ER-negative, which typically are more biologically homogeneous and difficult to derive pharmacogenetic predictors.

TABLE 8 TFEC gene expression signature Mean Mean expression expression Fold change score for score for from Gene sensitive resistant sensitive Probe IDs Symbol samples samples to resistant 117_at HSPA6 115.7435 160.8848 0.719418 200044_at SFRS9 9162.164 11122.64 0.82374 200049_at MYST2 1146.791 2946.447 0.389211 200054_at ZNF259 1223.51 690.9934 1.770654 200074_s_at RPL14 13941.79 10599.6 1.315313 200087_s_at TMED2 13327.92 15816.98 0.842634 200614_at CLTC 13393.41 18846.84 0.710645 200617_at MLEC 3070.657 4407.449 0.696697 200803_s_at TMBIM6 10993.56 13947.74 0.788196 200804_at TMBIM6 9514.076 12895.86 0.737762 200806_s_at HSPD1 16956.88 12267.84 1.382222 200864_s_at RAB11A 2133.104 3166.506 0.673646 200869_at NA 27442.45 19289.36 1.422673 200925_at COX6A1 16314.83 20032.21 0.81443 200927_s_at RAB14 2708.873 3549.842 0.763097 200934_at DEK 13171.53 8930.135 1.474953 200956_s_at SSRP1 3471.897 2380.275 1.458612 200987_x_at PSME3 2777.846 1871.324 1.484428 201068_s_at PSMC2 9457.255 7166.115 1.319719 201138_s_at SSB 3351.38 2467.13 1.358413 201144_s_at EIF2S1 7515.915 5764.926 1.303731 201176_s_at ARCN1 5622.616 3603.339 1.560391 201231_s_at ENO1 20203.12 11949.24 1.690746 201276_at RAB5B 1377.776 1962.704 0.701978 201291_s_at TOP2A 6940.859 4028.309 1.72302 201323_at EBNA1BP2 3330.056 1682.364 1.97939 201336_at VAMP3 4618.832 3109.314 1.485483 201339_s_at SCP2 4521.832 5970.388 0.757377 201370_s_at CUL3 533.4329 820.3061 0.650285 201371_s_at CUL3 5022.654 6067.351 0.827817 201443_s_at ATP6AP2 8944.633 11079.03 0.807348 201503_at G3BP1 6333.045 4541.926 1.394352 201646_at SCARB2 1828.498 3594.388 0.508709 201647_s_at SCARB2 914.4681 1716.978 0.532603 201662_s_at ACSL3 3737.222 6139.461 0.608722 201698_s_at SFRS9 7805.406 9498.678 0.821736 201706_s_at PEX19 1379.305 2008.117 0.686865 201797_s_at VARS 2010.536 1346.282 1.493399 201838_s_at SUPT7L 181.1054 270.9998 0.668286 202026_at SDHD 5771.024 3583.361 1.610506 202038_at UBE4A 4813.61 3026.576 1.590448 202042_at HARS 3354.21 2035.718 1.647679 202106_at GOLGA3 669.6143 1180.409 0.567273 202136_at ZMYND11 4359.457 6660.611 0.654513 202137_s_at ZMYND11 910.8246 1357.066 0.671172 202170_s_at AASDHPPT 2185.886 1157.782 1.887995 202197_at MTMR3 740.5151 1026.37 0.721489 202200_s_at SRPK1 4641.763 3000.278 1.547111 202249_s_at DCAF8 471.6991 704.0207 0.670007 202309_at MTHFD1 7517.459 5566.847 1.350398 202346_at UBE2K 2140.403 3138.997 0.681875 202384_s_at TCOF1 660.1933 368.3113 1.792487 202385_s_at TCOF1 991.3093 657.7641 1.507089 202433_at SLC35B1 2917.685 5279.648 0.552629 202448_s_at ZER1 251.0933 333.6784 0.752501 202521_at CTCF 2060.861 2603.676 0.79152 202690_s_at SNRPD1 7533.303 4685.021 1.607955 202696_at OXSR1 2154.489 1142.571 1.885651 202715_at CAD 1833.069 1153.737 1.58881 202882_x_at NOL7 7024.216 4577.358 1.534557 202900_s_at NUP88 2384.831 1400.243 1.703155 202955_s_at ARFGEF1 934.7113 1619.288 0.577236 203023_at NOP16 2093.772 1061.562 1.972351 203040_s_at HMBS 2347.845 1087.828 2.158287 203095_at MTIF2 2614.534 1768.639 1.478275 203341_at CEBPZ 2462.922 1581.759 1.557077 203383_s_at GOLGA1 677.7924 971.864 0.697415 203384_s_at GOLGA1 380.014 549.7136 0.691294 203388_at ARRB2 742.2734 466.2584 1.591979 203405_at PSMG1 5107.024 2713.197 1.88229 203462_x_at EIF3B 8467.719 5831.918 1.451961 203492_x_at CEP57 1396.224 771.9291 1.808747 203529_at PPP6C 3781.572 4742.893 0.797313 203622_s_at PNO1 3315.894 2288.912 1.448677 203694_s_at DHX16 1881.213 1540.109 1.221481 203707_at ZNF263 817.4016 1066.827 0.766199 203764_at DLGAP5 3164.142 1878.095 1.684761 203825_at BRD3 2354.793 4040.837 0.582749 203856_at VRK1 2097.84 1316.247 1.593804 203870_at USP46 707.8694 1127.675 0.627724 203901_at TAB1 286.1758 431.9597 0.662506 203944_x_at BTN2A1 755.3709 529.7962 1.425776 204028_s_at RABGAP1 1661.511 2483.629 0.668985 204175_at ZNF593 1746.664 1235.139 1.414144 204228_at PPIH 2047.483 1471.701 1.391236 204251_s_at CEP164 514.4119 356.7329 1.442008 204327_s_at ZNF202 556.5402 371.5959 1.497703 204384_at GOLGA2 525.491 782.0147 0.671971 204405_x_at DIMT1L 3052.986 1875.434 1.627882 204458_at PLA2G15 409.4907 647.8378 0.632088 204640_s_at SPOP 1607.667 3295.747 0.4878 204690_at STX8 1273.143 840.8007 1.514203 204905_s_at EEF1E1 4644.546 2304.47 2.015451 204977_at DDX10 1949.104 913.9113 2.132706 205176_s_at ITGB3BP 2101.838 1428.947 1.4709 205252_at ZNF174 336.3944 437.0478 0.769697 205324_s_at FTSJ1 4202.552 2431.21 1.728584 205395_s_at MRE11A 1410.135 668.0657 2.110773 205423_at AP1B1 1122.914 1694.807 0.662562 205545_x_at DNAJC8 1879.129 1285.085 1.46226 205677_s_at DLEU1 1255.681 927.597 1.353693 205996_s_at AK2 1018.938 572.9381 1.778443 206098_at ZBTB6 326.5067 626.5577 0.521112 206174_s_at PPP6C 2590.332 3279.083 0.789956 206499_s_at NA 3202.248 1995.17 1.605 206653_at POLR3G 349.0509 163.0942 2.14018 206752_s_at DFFB 267.3757 136.5099 1.958654 206968_s_at NFRKB 834.1006 548.7964 1.519873 207127_s_at HNRNPH3 2536.712 1784.935 1.421179 207458_at C8orf51 252.6023 390.1452 0.647457 207573_x_at ATP5L 12868.94 7157.65 1.797928 207668_x_at PDIA6 11425.04 8538.803 1.338014 208002_s_at ACOT7 3896.674 2218.566 1.756393 208152_s_at DDX21 6159.006 4031.128 1.527862 208398_s_at TBPL1 1455.744 904.8625 1.608802 208627_s_at YBX1 16334.62 11386.92 1.434507 208688_x_at EIF3B 9248.889 6289.878 1.47044 208696_at CCT5 12958.07 8806.64 1.471398 208736_at ARPC3 7943.565 9914.436 0.801212 208737_at ATP6V1G1 8214.979 11207.68 0.732977 208746_x_at ATP5L 15091.22 8805.705 1.7138 208756_at EIF3I 7693.947 5770.094 1.333418 208841_s_at G3BP2 4066.553 5554.157 0.732164 208897_s_at DDX18 3157.994 2131.123 1.481845 208910_s_at C1QBP 10486.57 6176.669 1.697771 208927_at SPOP 1515.317 3400.63 0.445599 208959_s_at ERP44 3174.715 2133.049 1.488346 209104_s_at NHP2 11207.61 7400.507 1.514438 209196_at WDR46 773.0434 478.9066 1.614184 209221_s_at OSBPL2 503.6307 752.0827 0.669648 209333_at ULK1 405.6357 836.6194 0.484851 209390_at TSC1 658.0203 873.068 0.753687 209421_at MSH2 2316.457 1678.295 1.380244 209630_s_at FBXW2 1856.153 3194.777 0.580996 209654_at KIAA0947 1764.443 1071.689 1.646414 209669_s_at SERBP1 7387.272 4924.087 1.500232 209798_at NPAT 697.1785 453.1317 1.538578 209820_s_at TBL3 927.8397 639.1812 1.451607 209862_s_at CEP57 1005.628 581.3507 1.729812 210005_at GART 734.2607 402.8177 1.822811 210075_at 2-Mar 382.1707 693.7915 0.550844 210097_s_at NOL7 6978.315 4489.217 1.554461 210098_s_at NA 241.9521 170.344 1.420374 210110_x_at HNRNPH3 2127.35 1237.802 1.718651 210175_at C2orf3 819.9656 415.0427 1.975617 210453_x_at ATP5L 14692.8 8695.455 1.68971 210466_s_at SERBP1 13817.55 8495.895 1.626379 210581_x_at PATZ1 274.963 508.161 0.541094 210633_x_at KRT10 8886.917 5288.54 1.68041 211150_s_at DLAT 2600.216 1127.826 2.30551 211392_s_at PATZ1 505.1098 1200.361 0.420798 211493_x_at DTNA 156.6095 261.3332 0.599271 211503_s_at RAB14 3249.621 4205.631 0.772683 211623_s_at FBL 11260.83 7071.324 1.592464 211787_s_at EIF4A1 19951.47 14284.43 1.396728 211979_at GPR107 719.4302 1091.796 0.658942 212053_at PDXDC1 2972.44 4712.484 0.630759 212068_s_at BAT2L1 1369.342 2031.806 0.673953 212295_s_at SLC7A1 4132.039 2720.654 1.518767 212319_at SGSM2 337.5604 524.2509 0.643891 212348_s_at KDM1A 2220.508 1563.413 1.420296 212367_at FEM1B 801.3594 1387.24 0.577664 212378_at GART 2636.639 1853.351 1.422633 212400_at FAM102A 1463.942 3599.978 0.406653 212403_at UBE3B 720.6819 1096.403 0.657315 212404_s_at UBE3B 330.821 422.2035 0.783558 212518_at PIP5K1C 686.5707 983.59 0.698025 212547_at BRD3 1443.112 2151.673 0.670693 212568_s_at DLAT 3384.49 1734.521 1.951253 212603_at MRPS31 1170.868 888.1795 1.318279 212604_at MRPS31 1649.495 1072.273 1.538317 212653_s_at EHBP1 1801.29 1125.869 1.599911 212725_s_at TUG1 4212.491 5793.129 0.727153 212846_at RRP1B 4570.108 2888.289 1.582289 212858_at PAQR4 890.3623 1249.141 0.712779 212920_at NA 1159.801 1583.023 0.73265 213028_at NFRKB 856.9258 468.9625 1.82728 213097_s_at DNAJC2 3147.828 1942.552 1.62046 213141_at PSKH1 320.3534 490.7227 0.65282 213149_at DLAT 2033.226 987.3523 2.059271 213185_at KIAA0556 717.9326 1020.674 0.70339 213196_at ZNF629 790.2709 1314.819 0.601049 213302_at PFAS 985.6257 371.1814 2.655375 213473_at BRAP 383.3691 545.4516 0.702847 213588_x_at RPL14 12521.06 10267.72 1.219458 213743_at CCNT2 446.6372 656.4078 0.680426 213864_s_at NAP1L1 13753.63 9480.823 1.450679 214011_s_at NOP16 3143.842 1679.824 1.871531 214070_s_at ATP10B 201.2146 286.7921 0.701604 214138_at ZNF79 122.1608 181.1471 0.674373 214209_s_at ABCB9 227.6885 408.6881 0.55712 214317_x_at RPS9 14390.26 8016.467 1.795088 214448_x_at NFKBIB 452.5948 322.1789 1.404793 215113_s_at SENP3 1172.252 723.4552 1.620352 215136_s_at EXOSC8 2583.367 1460.727 1.768548 215207_x_at NA 953.1323 632.3857 1.507201 215696_s_at SEC16A 3337.169 6268.931 0.532335 215728_s_at ACOT7 989.4201 591.0173 1.674097 215766_at GSTA1 232.347 315.6997 0.735975 215982_s_at DOM3Z 796.3964 525.539 1.51539 216226_at TAF4B 231.9066 160.8661 1.441612 216294_s_at KIAA1109 247.9177 319.8404 0.77513 216326_s_at HDAC3 1784.063 1286.286 1.386988 216389_s_at DCAF11 767.9973 1069.883 0.717833 216961_s_at RPAIN 129.1827 76.92163 1.679406 217106_x_at DIMT1L 2869.628 1874.642 1.53076 217294_s_at ENO1 17742.55 9893.597 1.793337 217445_s_at GART 889.0726 589.2969 1.508701 217747_s_at RPS9 17269.64 13264.43 1.301952 217777_s_at PTPLAD1 2463.443 4044.677 0.609058 217939_s_at AFTPH 1794.925 2376.986 0.755126 217994_x_at CPSF3L 1618.11 1056.148 1.532086 218104_at TEX10 1390.295 932.7098 1.490598 218107_at WDR26 4774.3 7057.717 0.676465 218155_x_at TSR1 540.7369 391.5009 1.381189 218156_s_at TSR1 3052.831 1441.476 2.117851 218190_s_at UQCR10 13114.27 16200.97 0.809474 218244_at NOL8 1563.344 919.849 1.699566 218278_at WDR74 827.359 564.8019 1.464866 218333_at DERL2 2137.201 1261.894 1.693645 218350_s_at GMNN 5065.954 3153.542 1.606433 218512_at WDR12 2981.38 2197.331 1.356818 218525_s_at HIF1AN 470.2369 599.2914 0.784655 218527_at APTX 1124.797 1496.674 0.751531 218566_s_at CHORDC1 4839.274 2626.314 1.842611 218580_x_at AURKAIP1 6051.183 4431.204 1.365584 218597_s_at CISD1 3600.918 2070.359 1.739272 218626_at EIF4ENIF1 914.2403 1297.272 0.70474 218710_at TTC27 1062.235 768.9373 1.381432 218754_at NOL9 1502.367 1019.784 1.473221 218774_at DCPS 1193.406 660.9693 1.805539 218830_at RPL26L1 4485.148 3394.633 1.321247 218877_s_at TRMT11 1534.32 802.5965 1.911696 218886_at PAK1IP1 1481.188 729.511 2.030385 218982_s_at NA 4813.206 2783.311 1.72931 219081_at ANKHD1 1041.326 630.9951 1.650292 219086_at ZNF839 315.2181 419.6135 0.75121 219098_at MYBBP1A 1034.593 701.145 1.475577 219122_s_at THG1L 503.4555 293.5091 1.715298 219220_x_at MRPS22 3919.705 2773.158 1.413444 219293_s_at OLA1 9726.41 7589.345 1.281588 219336_s_at ASCC1 881.3802 611.7619 1.440724 219374_s_at ALG9 924.3227 473.5073 1.952077 219679_s_at WAC 1460.09 2137.224 0.683171 219784_at FBXO31 291.4867 165.2849 1.763541 220223_at ATAD5 331.1321 231.426 1.430834 220255_at FANCE 528.5699 358.6645 1.473717 220419_s_at USP25 1330.991 892.0542 1.492052 220606_s_at C17orf48 369.1168 215.157 1.71557 220943_s_at C2orf56 315.9343 172.7772 1.828565 220964_s_at RAB1B 3117.226 4754.226 0.655675 221096_s_at TMCO6 684.2554 400.0512 1.710419 221158_at C21orf66 756.7798 572.7715 1.32126 221230_s_at ARID4B 1872.991 2971.586 0.6303 221255_s_at TMEM93 3588.787 2388.781 1.502351 221263_s_at SF3B5 6480.339 4181.837 1.549639 221434_s_at C14orf156 12412.39 7539.846 1.646239 221488_s_at CUTA 8889.569 6035.513 1.472877 221504_s_at ATP6V1H 1985.846 3122.422 0.635995 221517_s_at MED17 1833.489 1141.791 1.605802 221580_s_at TAF1D 3586.833 1619.988 2.214111 221691_x_at NPM1 18249.33 12330.1 1.480063 221699_s_at DDX50 3134.898 2233 1.403895 221700_s_at UBA52 18018.97 13894.85 1.29681 221712_s_at WDR74 2012.179 1331.996 1.51065 221836_s_at TRAPPC9 366.2582 610.1727 0.600253 221923_s_at NPM1 11950.14 6882.591 1.736285 221987_s_at TSR1 1058.162 615.5203 1.719134 222000_at C1orf174 1776.278 1132.765 1.568091 222029_x_at PFDN6 1649.205 961.1623 1.715844 222163_s_at SPATA5L1 1539.103 1073.811 1.433308 222200_s_at BSDC1 667.2134 995.3221 0.670349 222229_x_at RPL26 10986.62 7642.051 1.437653 222244_s_at TUG1 5336.587 7204.677 0.740712 33760_at PEX14 956.6173 760.0027 1.258703 35436_at GOLGA2 1497.479 2331.246 0.642351 37079_at YDD19 467.9044 304.3738 1.537269 37831_at SIPA1L3 723.9675 1091.681 0.663168 38157_at DOM3Z 760.3216 573.1502 1.326566 40829_at WDTC1 870.4659 1187.746 0.732872 41512_at BRAP 227.9488 334.9325 0.680581 43977_at TMEM161A 1993.581 1429.159 1.394933 44563_at WRAP53 1548.051 894.9573 1.729749 45526_g_at NAT15 2463.246 3165.33 0.778196 46256_at SPSB3 1633.875 2435.708 0.670801 46270_at UBAP1 819.4812 1164.926 0.703462 50376_at ZNF444 995.8318 1393.046 0.714859 56829_at TRAPPC9 942.1797 1794.472 0.525046 61874_at C9orf7 825.8467 1464.858 0.563773 64440_at IL17RC 904.1722 1410.434 0.641059 77508_r_at RABEP2 495.5632 765.0419 0.64776

Example 3 Identification and Validation of AC and ACT MultiGene Predictor (MGP) Methods Development of the Genomic Predictors

Forty-two breast cancer cell lines were treated with the combination of doxorubicin (A) and an active metabolite of cyclophosphamide (C) or the combination of A, C, and docetaxel (T) as already described. In vitro chemoresponse was measured as described herein. Briefly, cell growth inhibition was evaluated at 10 concentrations of combination AC or ACT and a dose-response curve was established. The area under the curve (AUC) was calculated to quantify the sensitivity of each cell line to the treatment; a lower AUC score indicates greater sensitivity. Gene expression profile data for these 42 cell lines were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus database (GSE12777). The MGP for AC (MGP-AC) and the MGP for ACT (MGP-ACT) were separately developed using supervised principal components regressions. By this method, a lower MGP score corresponds to a greater sensitivity to chemotherapy, and therefore a higher likelihood of achieving treatment response.

Clinical Validation of the MGPs

The MGP-AC and MGP-ACT were evaluated using the patients enrolled in the NSABP B-27 protocol. B-27 was a phase III trial to determine the effect of adding docetaxel (T) to preoperative doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide (AC) on clinical outcomes of women with operable primary breast cancer. Patients were allocated to receive either four cycles of AC followed surgery (group I: AC), or four cycles of AC followed by four cycles of docetaxel, and then surgery (group II: AC+T), or four cycles of AC followed by surgery and then four cycles of postoperative T (group III: AC→T). The endpoints included pathologic complete response (pCR), disease-free survival (DFS), and overall survival (OS). pCR was defined as no invasive cancer in the breast at surgery by the end of preoperative chemotherapy; DFS was calculated from the time of randomization until disease progression (any local, regional or distant recurrence, any clinically inoperable and residual disease at surgery, or any contralateral breast cancer, second cancer, or death); and OS was calculated from the time of randomization until death from any cause. The addition of preoperative T after preoperative AC significantly increased pCR (26% vs. 14%) and slightly improved DFS, but did not affect OS. The women enrolled in the B-27 study gave written consent for translational research, and gene expression profiles from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues were obtained using the Affymetrix HG-U133A microarray platform (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, Calif.) for a subset of patients. The two genomic predictors were developed by Precision Therapeutics, Inc., and the clinical validation was independently conducted by NSABP.

To determine the ability to predict pCR, MGP-AC was evaluated in group I and III patients, and MGP-ACT in group II patients. To determine the ability to predict DFS and OS, MGP-AC was evaluated in group I patients, and MGP-ACT in group II and III patients. A logistic regression model was employed to assess the associations of the MGPs with pCR adjusted for age, tumor size (>4.0 cm vs. ≦4.0 cm), clinical node (positive vs. negative), and estrogen receptor status (ER+ vs. ER−). Receiver operator characteristics (ROC) curves were also plotted to evaluate prediction performance. The area under the ROC curve (AU-ROC) was calculated from the c-statistic to represent the predictive accuracy. An optimal classification of MGP-score for prediction was also explored based on the maximum of the sum of sensitivity and specificity. The pCR rate for patients classified as high-response was compared with the rate for those classified as low-response using Chi-square test. The associations of MGPs with DFS and OS were assessed using a Cox proportional hazards model by controlling for age, tumor size, clinical node, and ER status.

Results

A total of 322 patients with available microarray data (103 treated by AC, 102 by AC+T and 117 by AC→T) were included in this analysis. The patient characteristics of this study population were similar to those reported in the parent NSABP B-27 protocol.

Patient Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Group I Group II Group III Pre-OpAC Pre-OpAC + T Pre-OpAC + Post-Op T (AC) (AC + T) (AC→T) (n = 103) (n = 102) (n = 117) Age (years) <50 59 (57.3) 57 (55.9) 63 (53.9) ≧50 44 (42.7) 45 (44.1) 54 (46.1) Median (range) 48.0 48.5 48.0 (21.0-79.0) (30.0-74.0) (23.0-70.0) Clinical tumor size ≦4.0 65 (63.1) 60 (58.8) 80 (68.4) >4.0 38 (36.9) 42 (41.2) 37 (31.6) Clinical node Negative 76 (73.8) 68 (66.7) 90 (76.9) Positive 27 (26.2) 34 (33.3) 27 (23.1) ER Negative 31 (30.1) 31 (30.4) 35 (29.9) Positive 65 (63.1) 67 (65.7) 80 (68.4) Unknown 7 (6.8) 4 (3.9) 2 (1.7) pCR No 90 (87.4) 77 (75.5) 105 (89.7)  Yes 13 (12.6) 25 (24.5) 12 (10.3) Neither MGP-AC nor MGP-ACT was associated with patient age, clinical tumor size, or lymph node status. However, both MGPs were associated with ER status; ER− patients showed significantly lower scores than ER+ patients (p<0.0001).

MGP Scores by Patient Characteristics MGP-AC MGP-ACT Mean (SD) P Mean (SD) P Age 0.160 0.213 (years) <50 0.05999 (0.04420) 0.05293 (0.04290) ≧50 0.06694 (0.04377) 0.05887 (0.04176) Tumor 0.363 0.534 size ≦4.0 0.06477 (0.04300) 0.05668 (0.04176) >4.0 0.06011 (0.04594) 0.05362 (0.04370) Clinical 0.804 0.734 node Negative 0.06270 (0.04511) 0.05508 (0.04282) Positive 0.06407 (0.04142) 0.05688 (0.04162) ER <0.0001 <0.0001 Negative 0.02189 (0.04339) 0.01641 (0.04118) Positive 0.08244 (0.02988) 0.07426 (0.02922) All 0.06308 (0.04408) 0.05557 (0.04244) patients

MGP for AC

MGP-AC was generated based on 417 probe sets (Table 9). The ability of MGP-AC to predict pCR was validated using data from the 220 women who received pre-operative AC (group I and II). In this group of patients, 25 (11.4%) achieved pCR. By univariate analysis, ER status and MGP-AC were the two factors significantly associated with the response. Specifically, patients with ER+tumors (OR=0.33, 95% CI=0.14-0.82, p=0.016) or high MGP-AC score (OR=0.45, 95% CI=0.30-0.68, p=0.0002) were less likely to achieve pCR. In multivariate analysis, MGP-AC remained the only independent predictor of pCR independent of ER status, tumor size, lymph node status, and age (OR=0.49, 95% CI=0.27-0.88, p=0.017). The accuracy of the prediction was also illustrated using the ROC analysis, with an AU-ROC of 0.75 (95% CI=0.64-0.86) (FIG. 6). There is an indication that the prediction could be more accurate in ER negative compared to ER positive patients (AU-ROC: 0.71 vs. 0.63) (FIG. 6). An optimal classification resulted in a sensitivity of 0.72 and a specificity of 0.80, and the pCR rate was 31% in patients predicted by the MGP-AC as high-response compared with 4% in those predicted as low-response

MGP-AC in prediction of pCR based on optimal cutoff pCR MGP Prediction Yes No Response 18  40 PPV = 0.31 Non-response  7 155 NPV = 0.96 Sensitivity = 0.72 Specificity = 0.80

The ability of MGP-AC to predict disease free survival (DFS) or overall survival (OS) was assessed on 103 patients treated with AC (group I). There was no relationship identified from univariate analysis. However, after adjusting for clinical covariates (ER status, clinical tumor size, lymph node status, and age), a higher MGP-AC score was significantly associated with an increased risk for disease progression (HR=1.48, 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.02-2.15, p=0.040) or death (HR=1.66, 95% CI=1.06-2.62, p=0.028). By adding MGP-AC to the clinical model, the accuracy for predicting 5-year DFS was improved from 63% to 72%. The DFS and OS based on the cut-off obtained above were also evaluated, and there were no differences in survival functions for high- vs. low-response group.

Association of MGP-AC with pCR, DFS and OS pCR DFS OS (Group I and Group III) (Group II) (Group II) MGP-AC Univariate Multivariate Univariate Multivariate Univariate Multivariate Age (years) 0.81 0.98 1.59 1.73 1.68 1.95 (≧50 vs <50 yrs) (0.35-1.89) (0.38-2.53) (0.81-3.12) (0.81-3.70) (0.75-3.76) (0.77-4.98) Tumor Size 1.10 0.86 1.56 1.44 2.18 2.18 (>4 vs ≦4 cm) (0.46-2.62) (0.33-2.29) (0.79-3.06) (0.69-3.02) (0.97-4.86) (0.89-5.32) Node 0.75 0.68 1.74 2.01 1.93 2.28 (Pos vs Neg) (0.27-2.09) (0.20-2.24) (0.86-3.52) (0.92-4.36) (0.84-4.41) (0.89-5.83) ER 0.33 0.84 0.69 0.41 0.64 0.39 (Pos vs Neg) (0.14-0.82) (0.23-2.99) (0.34-1.41) (0.17-0.98) (0.27-1.49) (0.15-1.06) MGP (inc 1 0.45 0.49 1.24 1.48 1.34 1.66 std) (0.30-0.68) (0.27-0.88) (0.88-1.74) (1.02-2.15) (0.88-2.05) (1.06-2.62)

MGP for ACT

MGP for ACT was generated based on 438 probe sets (Table 10). The ability of MGP-ACT to predict chemotherapy response was evaluated using data from 102 women who received pre-operative AC+T (group II). In this group of patients, 25 (24.5%) achieved pCR. By univariate analysis, patients with higher MGP-ACT scores (OR=0.62. 95% CI=0.39-0.99, p=0.044) were less likely to achieve pCR; however, the association was no longer significant after adjusting for ER status and other clinical factors (OR=0.79, 95% CI=0.38-1.64, p=0.528). These results were also supported by the ROC analysis (FIG. 7). Similarly, there was no evidence that MGP-ACT predicted either DFS(HR=1.03, 95% CI=0.78-1.37, p=0.817) or OS(HR=1.05, 95% CI=0.73-1.51, p=0.799) among patients treated with AC+T (group I) or ACàT (group III).

Association of MGP-ACT with pCR, DFS and OS pCR DFS OS (Group I and Group III) (Group II) (Group II) MGP-ACT Univariate Multivariate Univariate Multivariate Univariate Multivariate Age (years) 0.80 0.64 1.22 1.26 1.07 1.16 (≧50 vs <50 yrs) (0.32-2.00) (0.23-1.78) (0.80-1.85) (0.83-1.93) (0.61-1.88) (0.65-2.06) Tumor Size 0.47 0.50 2.07 2.00 2.07 2.01 (>4 vs ≦4 cm) (0.18-1.25) (0.18-1.45) (1.36-3.16) (1.31-3.06) (1.18-3.63) (1.13-3.57) Node 1.47 1.63 1.32 1.22 1.53 1.33 (Pos vs Neg) (0.58-3.75) (0.58-4.59) (0.84-2.08) (0.77-1.93) (0.85-2.75) (0.73-2.42) ER 0.36 0.48 0.63 0.64 0.37 0.36 (Pos vs Neg) (0.13-0.95) (0.11-2.15) (0.41-0.98) (0.36-1.14) (0.21-0.64) (0.17-0.76) MGP (inc 1 0.62 0.79 0.92 1.03 0.78 1.05 std) (0.39-0.99) (0.38-1.64) (0.74-1.14) (0.78-1.37) (0.58-1.03) (0.73-1.51)

Discussion

Using 42 breast cancer cell lines, their publicly available gene expression profile data, and an in vitro chemoresponse assay, we derived MGPs for AC and ACT. Blinded evaluation of these MGPs with clinical response data from 322 patients participating in the NSABP B-27 phase III clinical trial indicated that breast cancer cell line-derived MGPs have the ability to predict both short and long term clinical outcomes. Specifically, the MGP for AC predicted pCR with an accuracy or 75%. MGP for ACT might also be able to predict pCR or survival.

We have taken advantage of the increasing availability of breast cancer specific cell lines. In the current study, MGPs were developed from 42 breast cancer cell lines. Our results show that MGP-AC was predictive of pCR based on both univariate and multivariate analysis, and was predictive of DFS and OS in multivariate analysis. Although patients who achieve pCR by the end of neoadjuvant chemotherapy are more likely to have a longer DFS or OS, it is frequently observed that a gene signature positively associated with pCR may not correlate with, or even negatively correlate with, survival. This phenomenon is usually caused by the confounding effects of various biologic or clinical factors. For example, tumors with ER-negative status, poor differentiation, or high proliferation are more sensitive to chemotherapy, but all of these features are also unfavorable prognostic factors associated with poor survival. Therefore, the true function of a pharmacogenomic predictor of DFS or OS can only be illustrated with a large sample size after controlling for these confounders.

An important concern of cell line-derived predictors is whether they have similar performance as tumor-derived MGPs. Conceptually, tumor-derived MGPs might be more accurate than cell line-derived predictors. However, the accuracy of tumor derived MGPs is significantly reduced by unreliable assessment of clinical outcomes and the disparity between protocols used for training and validation cohorts. In contrast, as in the current study, cell lines were grown under identical conditions, and assays were performed in a well-controlled system. Considering the advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches, we suggest that cell line-derived MGPs may perform as well as tumor-derived MGPs.

Various histologic and pathologic factors, including ER, PR, HR, and grade are known to be significantly related to drug response. Although our MGP-AC was significantly associated with ER status, it predicted pCR in both ER− and ER+ patients, indicating that it contains more predictive information than ER status regarding chemosensitivity. Bioinformatic functional analysis indicates that genes in MGP-AC are involved in a large number of functions, including cell cycle, cell death, cellular growth and proliferation, cell signaling, drug metabolism, and lipid metabolism.

Canonical pathways identified by IPA associated with MGP-AC Ingenuity Canonical −log Pathways (p-value) Ratio Molecules Protein 3.710 5.11E−02 USP21, ANAPC2, USP28, Ubiquitination USP38, UBE3B, HSPA5, Pathway DNAJB14, DNAJC11, DNAJC5, CBL, DNAJC8, USP46, PSMC2, USP25 Fcγ 1.600 4.90E−02 ACTR3, CBL, VAMP3, Receptor-mediated RAB11A, ARPC3 Phagocytosis in Macrophages and Monocytes Aminoacyl-tRNA 1.600 3.85E−02 EARS2, DARS, HARS Biosynthesis Alanine and 1.530 3.66E−02 ADSL, DLAT, DARS Aspartate Metabolism RAN Signaling 1.480 8.70E−02 KPNB1, RANBP2 Endoplasmic 1.380 1.11E−01 HSPA5, EIF2AK3 Reticulum Stress Pathway NRF2-mediated 1.380 3.63E−02 CUL3, DNAJC5, DNAJC8, Oxidative DNAJB14, EIF2AK3, Stress Response PTPLAD1, DNAJC11 Purine Metabolism 1.370 2.30E−02 ADSL, KIF1B, ATP5L, ATP6V1G1, PSMC2, AK2, HSPA5, GART, PDE6D

Further support of the utility of cell line-derived MGPs is evidenced in the ability of the currently described MGP-AC to predict clinical outcome in ER− patients, an historically difficult task because of the more molecularly homogeneous ER− tumors. An additional advantage to the current approach is the use of FFPE tumor samples. Since FFPE tissue is easily obtained and has been the standard for tumor archiving, the genomic predictors based on this platform will be more clinically useful.

The lower predictive ability of MGP-ACT for clinical outcomes may in part be the result of the disparity between how it was developed and how the patients were treated. MGP-ACT was developed by testing the combination of three drugs (A, C, T) concurrently in vitro, whereas the patients were treated sequentially with 4 cycles of AC followed by 4 cycles of T. Although our exploratory approach of mathematically generating an MGP for AC+T yielded a slightly improved predictive ability, the far more complex mechanisms of drug synergy in vivo than in vitro remain a challenge in developing MGPs for sequential chemotherapy treatments.

In summary, by taking advantage of the increasing number of breast cancer-specific cell lines, the large number of breast cancer patients participating in a phase III clinical trial in which long term outcomes were recorded and tumor samples were available for uniform genetic profiling, and a validated in vitro chemoresponse assay, we were able to demonstrate that breast cancer cell line-derived MGPs can predict short and long term patient outcomes.

TABLE 9 Gene signature for sensitivity to AC Probe ID Gene Symbol Entrez Gene Name Location Type(s) 1553690_at SGOL1 shugoshin-like 1 (S. pombe) Nucleus other 1553990_at C16orf79 chromosome 16 open unknown enzyme reading frame 79 1554082_a_at NOL9 nucleolar protein 9 Nucleus other 1554213_at ARHGEF10 Rho guanine nucleotide Cytoplasm peptidase exchange factor (GEF) 10 1554600_s_at LMNA lamin A/C Nucleus other 1554677_s_at CMTM4 CKLF-like MARVEL Extracellular cytokine transmembrane domain Space containing 4 1555015_a_at ZNF398 zinc finger protein 398 Nucleus transcription regulator 1555399_a_at DUSP16 dual specificity Nucleus phosphatase phosphatase 16 1555500_s_at SLC2A4RG SLC2A4 regulator Cytoplasm transcription regulator 1555803_a_at C11orf57 chromosome 11 open unknown other reading frame 57 1555897_at KDM1A lysine (K)-specific Nucleus enzyme demethylase 1A 1555982_at ZFYVE16 zinc finger, FYVE Nucleus transporter domain containing 16 1558044_s_at EXOSC6 exosome component 6 Nucleus other 1558953_s_at CEP164 centrosomal protein Cytoplasm other 164 kDa 1559893_at CCDC75 coiled-coil domain unknown other containing 75 1564911_at SNHG4 small nucleolar RNA unknown other host gene 4 (non-protein coding) 1568877_a_at ACBD5 acyl-CoA binding unknown other domain containing 5 1569867_at EME2 essential meiotic unknown other endonuclease 1 homolog 2 (S. pombe) 200035_at CTDNEP1 CTD nuclear envelope Extracellular phosphatase phosphatase 1 Space 200044_at SRSF9 serine/arginine-rich Nucleus enzyme splicing factor 9 200054_at ZNF259 zinc finger protein 259 Nucleus other 200074_s_at RPL14 ribosomal protein L14 Cytoplasm other 200617_at MLEC malectin Plasma other Membrane 200794_x_at DAZAP2 DAZ associated protein 2 Nucleus other 200803_s_at TMBIM6 transmembrane BAX Nucleus other inhibitor motif containing 6 200804_at TMBIM6 transmembrane BAX Nucleus other inhibitor motif containing 6 200836_s_at MAP4 microtubule-associated Cytoplasm other protein 4 200858_s_at RPS8 ribosomal protein S8 Cytoplasm other 200861_at CNOT1 CCR4-NOT Cytoplasm other transcription complex, subunit 1 200864_s_at RAB11A RAB11A, member RAS Cytoplasm enzyme oncogene family 200925_at COX6A1 cytochrome c oxidase Cytoplasm enzyme subunit VIa polypeptide 1 200934_at DEK DEK oncogene Nucleus transcription regulator 200941_at HSBP1 heat shock factor Nucleus transcription binding protein 1 regulator 200969_at SERP1 stress-associated Cytoplasm other endoplasmic reticulum protein 1 201064_s_at PABPC4 poly(A) binding protein, Cytoplasm other cytoplasmic 4 (inducible form) 201174_s_at TERF2IP telomeric repeat binding Nucleus other factor 2, interacting protein 201176_s_at ARCN1 archain 1 Cytoplasm other 201231_s_at ENO1 enolase 1, (alpha) Cytoplasm transcription regulator 201276_at RAB5B RAB5B, member RAS Cytoplasm enzyme oncogene family 201285_at MKRN1 makorin ring finger unknown other protein 1 201323_at EBNA1BP2 EBNA1 binding protein 2 Nucleus other 201336_at VAMP3 vesicle-associated Plasma other membrane protein 3 Membrane (cellubrevin) 201370_s_at CUL3 cullin 3 Nucleus enzyme 201371_s_at CUL3 cullin 3 Nucleus enzyme 201443_s_at ATP6AP2 ATPase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, lysosomal accessory protein 2 201499_s_at USP7 ubiquitin specific Nucleus peptidase peptidase 7 (herpes virus-associated) 201503_at G3BP1 GTPase activating Nucleus enzyme protein (SH3 domain) binding protein 1 201623_s_at DARS aspartyl-tRNA Cytoplasm enzyme synthetase 201646_at SCARB2 scavenger receptor class Plasma other B, member 2 Membrane 201698_s_at SRSF9 serine/arginine-rich Nucleus enzyme splicing factor 9 201712_s_at RANBP2 RAN binding protein 2 Nucleus enzyme 201716_at SNX1 sorting nexin 1 Cytoplasm transporter 201776_s_at KIAA0494 KIAA0494 unknown other 201886_at DCAF11 DDB1 and CUL4 unknown other associated factor 11 201892_s_at IMPDH2 IMP (inosine 5′- Cytoplasm enzyme monophosphate) dehydrogenase 2 201972_at ATP6V1A ATPase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, lysosomal 70 kDa, V1 subunit A 201990_s_at CREBL2 cAMP responsive Nucleus transcription element binding protein- regulator like 2 201993_x_at HNRPDL heterogeneous nuclear Nucleus other ribonucleoprotein D-like 202026_at SDHD succinate Cytoplasm enzyme dehydrogenase complex, subunit D, integral membrane protein 202042_at HARS histidyl-tRNA Cytoplasm enzyme synthetase 202076_at BIRC2 baculoviral IAP repeat Cytoplasm other containing 2 202106_at GOLGA3 golgin A3 Cytoplasm transporter 202136_at ZMYND11 zinc finger, MYND-type Nucleus other containing 11 202137_s_at ZMYND11 zinc finger, MYND-type Nucleus other containing 11 202144_s_at ADSL adenylosuccinate lyase Cytoplasm enzyme 202170_s_at AASDHPPT aminoadipate- Cytoplasm enzyme semialdehyde dehydrogenase- phosphopantetheinyl transferase 202204_s_at AMFR autocrine motility factor Plasma transmembrane receptor Membrane receptor 202302_s_at RSRC2 arginine/serine-rich unknown other coiled-coil 2 202384_s_at TCOF1 Treacher Collins- Nucleus transporter Franceschetti syndrome 1 202385_s_at TCOF1 Treacher Collins- Nucleus transporter Franceschetti syndrome 1 202428_x_at DBI diazepam binding Cytoplasm other inhibitor (GABA receptor modulator, acyl- CoA binding protein) 202433_at SLC35B1 solute carrier family 35, Cytoplasm transporter member B1 202452_at ZER1 zer-1 homolog (C. elegans) unknown enzyme 202521_at CTCF CCCTC-binding factor Nucleus transcription (zinc finger protein) regulator 202636_at RNF103 ring finger protein 103 Cytoplasm enzyme 202690_s_at SNRPD1 small nuclear Nucleus other ribonucleoprotein D1 polypeptide 16 kDa 202696_at OXSR1 oxidative-stress Nucleus kinase responsive 1 202713_s_at KIAA0391 KIAA0391 unknown other 202715_at CAD carbamoyl-phosphate Cytoplasm enzyme synthetase 2, aspartate transcarbamylase, and dihydroorotase 202852_s_at AAGAB alpha- and gamma- Cytoplasm other adaptin binding protein 202882_x_at NOL7 nucleolar protein 7, Nucleus other 27 kDa 202884_s_at PPP2R1B protein phosphatase 2, unknown phosphatase regulatory subunit A, beta 203040_s_at HMBS hydroxymethylbilane Cytoplasm enzyme synthase 203051_at BAHD1 bromo adjacent Nucleus other homology domain containing 1 203089_s_at HTRA2 HtrA serine peptidase 2 Cytoplasm peptidase 203119_at CCDC86 coiled-coil domain Nucleus other containing 86 203160_s_at RNF8 ring finger protein 8 Nucleus enzyme 203230_at DVL1 dishevelled, dsh Cytoplasm other homolog 1 (Drosophila) 203341_at CEBPZ CCAAT/enhancer Nucleus other binding protein (C/EBP), zeta 203383_s_at GOLGA1 golgin A1 Cytoplasm other 203384_s_at GOLGA1 golgin A1 Cytoplasm other 203405_at PSMG1 proteasome (prosome, Plasma other macropain) assembly Membrane chaperone 1 203492_x_at CEP57 centrosomal protein Cytoplasm other 57 kDa 203614_at UTP14C UTP14, U3 small Nucleus other nucleolar ribonucleoprotein, homolog C (yeast) 203622_s_at PNO1 partner of NOB1 Nucleus other homolog (S. cerevisiae) 203693_s_at E2F3 E2F transcription factor 3 Nucleus transcription regulator 203764_at DLGAP5 discs, large (Drosophila) Nucleus phosphatase homolog-associated protein 5 203825_at BRD3 bromodomain Nucleus kinase containing 3 203831_at R3HDM2 R3H domain containing 2 Nucleus other 203870_at USP46 ubiquitin specific unknown peptidase peptidase 46 203944_x_at BTN2A1 butyrophilin, subfamily Plasma other 2, member A1 Membrane 204067_at SUOX sulfite oxidase Cytoplasm enzyme 204144_s_at PIGQ phosphatidylinositol Cytoplasm enzyme glycan anchor biosynthesis, class Q 204194_at BACH1 BTB and CNC Nucleus transcription homology 1, basic regulator leucine zipper transcription factor 1 204251_s_at CEP164 centrosomal protein Cytoplasm other 164 kDa 204315_s_at GTSE1 G-2 and S-phase Cytoplasm other expressed 1 204327_s_at ZNF202 zinc finger protein 202 Nucleus transcription regulator 204405_x_at DIMT1L DIM1 Cytoplasm enzyme dimethyladenosine transferase 1-like (S. cerevisiae) 204690_at STX8 syntaxin 8 Plasma other Membrane 204791_at NR2C1 nuclear receptor Nucleus transcription subfamily 2, group C, regulator member 1 204905_s_at EEF1E1 eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm translation elongation factor 1 regulator epsilon 1 204977_at DDX10 DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala- Nucleus enzyme Asp) box polypeptide 10 205176_s_at ITGB3BP integrin beta 3 binding Nucleus other protein (beta3- endonexin) 205202_at PCMT1 protein-L-isoaspartate Cytoplasm enzyme (D-aspartate) O- methyltransferase 205203_at PLD1 phospholipase D1, Cytoplasm enzyme phosphatidylcholine- specific 205252_at ZNF174 zinc finger protein 174 Nucleus transcription regulator 205996_s_at AK2 adenylate kinase 2 Cytoplasm kinase 206098_at ZBTB6 zinc finger and BTB Nucleus other domain containing 6 206452_x_at PPP2R4 protein phosphatase 2A Cytoplasm phosphatase activator, regulatory subunit 4 206636_at RASA2 RAS p21 protein Cytoplasm other activator 2 206653_at POLR3G polymerase (RNA) III Nucleus enzyme (DNA directed) polypeptide G (32 kD) 207112_s_at GAB1 GRB2-associated Cytoplasm other binding protein 1 207127_s_at HNRNPH3 heterogeneous nuclear Nucleus other ribonucleoprotein H3 (2H9) 207270_x_at CD300C CD300c molecule Plasma transmembrane Membrane receptor 207458_at C8orf51 chromosome 8 open unknown other reading frame 51 207573_x_at ATP5L ATP synthase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit G 207801_s_at RNF10 ring finger protein 10 Cytoplasm other 207809_s_at ATP6AP1 ATPase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, lysosomal accessory protein 1 207941_s_at RBM39 RNA binding motif Nucleus transcription protein 39 regulator 208033_s_at ZFHX3 zinc finger homeobox 3 Nucleus transcription regulator 208405_s_at CD164 CD164 molecule, Plasma other sialomucin Membrane 208463_at GABRA4 gamma-aminobutyric Plasma ion channel acid (GABA) A receptor, Membrane alpha 4 208627_s_at YBX1 Y box binding protein 1 Nucleus transcription regulator 208653_s_at CD164 CD164 molecule, Plasma other sialomucin Membrane 208654_s_at CD164 CD164 molecule, Plasma other sialomucin Membrane 208688_x_at EIF3B eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm translation initiation factor 3, regulator subunit B 208736_at ARPC3 actin related protein ⅔ Cytoplasm other complex, subunit 3, 21 kDa 208737_at ATP6V1G1 ATPase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, lysosomal 13 kDa, V1 subunit G1 208746_x_at ATP5L ATP synthase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit G 208752_x_at NAP1L1 nucleosome assembly Nucleus other protein 1-like 1 208756_at EIF3I eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm translation initiation factor 3, regulator subunit I 208874_x_at PPP2R4 protein phosphatase 2A Cytoplasm phosphatase activator, regulatory subunit 4 208921_s_at SRI sorcin Cytoplasm transporter 209112_at CDKN1B cyclin-dependent kinase Nucleus other inhibitor 1B (p27, Kip1) 209221_s_at OSBPL2 oxysterol binding Cytoplasm other protein-like 2 209232_s_at DCTN5 dynactin 5 (p25) unknown other 209390_at TSC1 tuberous sclerosis 1 Cytoplasm other 209431_s_at PATZ1 POZ (BTB) and AT Nucleus transcription hook containing zinc regulator finger 1 209494_s_at PATZ1 POZ (BTB) and AT Nucleus transcription hook containing zinc regulator finger 1 209623_at MCCC2 methylcrotonoyl-CoA Cytoplasm enzyme carboxylase 2 (beta) 209624_s_at MCCC2 methylcrotonoyl-CoA Cytoplasm enzyme carboxylase 2 (beta) 209630_s_at FBXW2 F-box and WD repeat Cytoplasm enzyme domain containing 2 209669_s_at SERBP1 SERPINE1 mRNA Nucleus other binding protein 1 209798_at NPAT nuclear protein, ataxia- Nucleus transcription telangiectasia locus regulator 209862_s_at CEP57 centrosomal protein Cytoplasm other 57 kDa 209934_s_at ATP2C1 ATPase, Ca++ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, type 2C, member 1 210005_at GART phosphoribosylglycinamide Cytoplasm enzyme formyltransferase, phosphoribosylglycinamide synthetase, phosphoribosylaminoimidazole synthetase 210097_s_at NOL7 nucleolar protein 7, Nucleus other 27 kDa 210160_at PAFAH1B2 platelet-activating factor Cytoplasm enzyme acetylhydrolase 1b, catalytic subunit 2 (30 kDa) 210183_x_at PNN pinin, desmosome Plasma other associated protein Membrane 210453_x_at ATP5L ATP synthase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit G 210466_s_at SERBP1 SERPINE1 mRNA Nucleus other binding protein 1 210581_x_at PATZ1 POZ (BTB) and AT Nucleus transcription hook containing zinc regulator finger 1 211034_s_at C12orf51 chromosome 12 open unknown other reading frame 51 211150_s_at DLAT dihydrolipoamide S- Cytoplasm enzyme acetyltransferase 211391_s_at PATZ1 POZ (BTB) and AT Nucleus transcription hook containing zinc regulator finger 1 211392_s_at PATZ1 POZ (BTB) and AT Nucleus transcription hook containing zinc regulator finger 1 211584_s_at NPAT nuclear protein, ataxia- Nucleus transcription telangiectasia locus regulator 211623_s_at FBL fibrillarin Nucleus other 211749_s_at VAMP3 vesicle-associated Plasma other membrane protein 3 Membrane (cellubrevin) 211787_s_at EIF4A1 eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm translation initiation factor 4A1 regulator 212046_x_at MAPK3 mitogen-activated Cytoplasm kinase protein kinase 3 212053_at PDXDC1 pyridoxal-dependent unknown other decarboxylase domain containing 1 212064_x_at MAZ MYC-associated zinc Nucleus transcription finger protein (purine- regulator binding transcription factor) 212114_at ATXN7L3B ataxin 7-like 3B unknown other 212320_at TUBB tubulin, beta Cytoplasm other 212367_at FEM1B fem-1 homolog b (C. elegans) Nucleus transcription regulator 212373_at FEM1B fem-1 homolog b (C. elegans) Nucleus transcription regulator 212400_at FAM102A family with sequence unknown other similarity 102, member A 212403_at UBE3B ubiquitin protein ligase unknown enzyme E3B 212506_at PICALM phosphatidylinositol Cytoplasm other binding clathrin assembly protein 212518_at PIP5K1C phosphatidylinositol-4- Plasma kinase phosphate 5-kinase, type Membrane I, gamma 212547_at BRD3 bromodomain Nucleus kinase containing 3 212617_at ZNF609 zinc finger protein 609 unknown other 212652_s_at SNX4 sorting nexin 4 Cytoplasm transporter 212653_s_at EHBP1 EH domain binding unknown other protein 1 212846_at RRP1B ribosomal RNA Nucleus other processing 1 homolog B (S. cerevisiae) 212871_at MAPKAPK5 mitogen-activated Cytoplasm kinase protein kinase-activated protein kinase 5 212920_at REST RE1-silencing Nucleus transcription transcription factor regulator 212995_x_at MZT2B mitotic spindle Cytoplasm other organizing protein 2B 213025_at THUMPD1 THUMP domain unknown other containing 1 213141_at PSKH1 protein serine kinase H1 Nucleus kinase 213153_at SETD1B SET domain containing Nucleus other 1B 213185_at KIAA0556 KIAA0556 Extracellular other Space 213196_at ZNF629 zinc finger protein 629 Nucleus other 213234_at KIAA1467 KIAA1467 unknown other 213473_at BRAP BRCA1 associated Cytoplasm enzyme protein 213508_at C14orf147 chromosome 14 open Cytoplasm other reading frame 147 213509_x_at CES2 carboxylesterase 2 Cytoplasm enzyme 213588_x_at RPL14 ribosomal protein L14 Cytoplasm other 213615_at LPCAT3 lysophosphatidylcholine Plasma other acyltransferase 3 Membrane 213743_at CCNT2 cyclin T2 Nucleus transcription regulator 213798_s_at CAP1 CAP, adenylate cyclase- Plasma other associated protein 1 Membrane (yeast) 213864_s_at NAP1L1 nucleosome assembly Nucleus other protein 1-like 1 213907_at EEF1E1 eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm translation elongation factor 1 regulator epsilon 1 214011_s_at NOP16 NOP16 nucleolar Nucleus other protein homolog (yeast) 214138_at ZNF79 zinc finger protein 79 Nucleus other 214317_x_at RPS9 ribosomal protein S9 Cytoplasm translation regulator 214483_s_at ARFIP1 ADP-ribosylation factor Cytoplasm other interacting protein 1 214635_at CLDN9 claudin 9 Plasma other Membrane 215458_s_at SMURF1 SMAD specific E3 Cytoplasm enzyme ubiquitin protein ligase 1 215493_x_at BTN2A1 butyrophilin, subfamily Plasma other 2, member A1 Membrane 215696_s_at SEC16A SEC16 homolog A (S. cerevisiae) Cytoplasm phosphatase 216105_x_at PPP2R4 protein phosphatase 2A Cytoplasm phosphatase activator, regulatory subunit 4 216226_at TAF4B TAF4b RNA Nucleus transcription polymerase II, TATA regulator box binding protein (TBP)-associated factor, 105 kDa 216326_s_at HDAC3 histone deacetylase 3 Nucleus transcription regulator 216389_s_at DCAF11 DDB1 and CUL4 unknown other associated factor 11 216624_s_at MLL myeloid/lymphoid or Nucleus transcription mixed-lineage leukemia regulator (trithorax homolog, Drosophila) 217142_at 217156_at 217185_s_at ZNF259 zinc finger protein 259 Nucleus other 217294_s_at ENO1 enolase 1, (alpha) Cytoplasm transcription regulator 217445_s_at GART phosphoribosylglycinamide Cytoplasm enzyme formyltransferase, phosphoribosylglycinamide synthetase, phosphoribosylaminoimidazole synthetase 217747_s_at RPS9 ribosomal protein S9 Cytoplasm translation regulator 217756_x_at SERF2 small EDRK-rich factor 2 unknown other 217777_s_at PTPLAD1 protein tyrosine Cytoplasm other phosphatase-like A domain containing 1 217795_s_at TMEM43 transmembrane protein Nucleus other 43 217844_at CTDSP1 CTD (carboxy-terminal Nucleus phosphatase domain, RNA polymerase II, polypeptide A) small phosphatase 1 217939_s_at AFTPH aftiphilin Cytoplasm other 217994_x_at CPSF3L cleavage and Nucleus other polyadenylation specific factor 3-like 218194_at REXO2 REX2, RNA Cytoplasm enzyme exonuclease 2 homolog (S. cerevisiae) 218230_at ARFIP1 ADP-ribosylation factor Cytoplasm other interacting protein 1 218259_at MKL2 MKL/myocardin-like 2 Nucleus transcription regulator 218301_at RNPEPL1 arginyl aminopeptidase unknown peptidase (aminopeptidase B)-like 1 218314_s_at C11orf57 chromosome 11 open unknown other reading frame 57 218333_at DERL2 Der1-like domain Cytoplasm other family, member 2 218350_s_at GMNN geminin, DNA Nucleus transcription replication inhibitor regulator 218488_at EIF2B3 eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm translation initiation factor 2B, regulator subunit 3 gamma, 58 kDa 218494_s_at SLC2A4RG SLC2A4 regulator Cytoplasm transcription regulator 218527_at APTX aprataxin Nucleus phosphatase 218533_s_at UCKL1 uridine-cytidine kinase Cytoplasm kinase 1-like 1 218561_s_at LYRM4 LYR motif containing 4 Cytoplasm other 218566_s_at CHORDC1 cysteine and histidine- unknown other rich domain (CHORD) containing 1 218597_s_at CISD1 CDGSH iron sulfur Cytoplasm other domain 1 218626_at EIF4ENIF1 eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm translation initiation factor 4E regulator nuclear import factor 1 218661_at NAT15 N-acetyltransferase 15 unknown enzyme (GCN5-related, putative) 218696_at EIF2AK3 eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm kinase initiation factor 2-alpha kinase 3 218710_at TTC27 tetratricopeptide repeat unknown other domain 27 218754_at NOL9 nucleolar protein 9 Nucleus other 218886_at PAK1IP1 PAK1 interacting Nucleus other protein 1 218889_at NOC3L nucleolar complex Nucleus other associated 3 homolog (S. cerevisiae) 219081_at ANKHD1 ankyrin repeat and KH Nucleus transcription domain containing 1 regulator 219098_at MYBBP1A MYB binding protein Nucleus transcription (P160) 1a regulator 219120_at C2orf44 chromosome 2 open unknown other reading frame 44 219122_s_at THG1L tRNA-histidine Cytoplasm enzyme guanylyltransferase 1- like (S. cerevisiae) 219220_x_at MRPS22 mitochondrial ribosomal Cytoplasm other protein S22 219223_at C9orf7 chromosome 9 open unknown other reading frame 7 219339_s_at EHMT1 euchromatic histone- Nucleus transcription lysine N- regulator methyltransferase 1 219374_s_at ALG9 asparagine-linked Cytoplasm enzyme glycosylation 9, alpha- 1,2-mannosyltransferase homolog (S. cerevisiae) 219382_at SERTAD3 SERTA domain Nucleus transcription containing 3 regulator 219679_s_at WAC WW domain containing Nucleus other adaptor with coiled-coil 220223_at ATAD5 ATPase family, AAA unknown other domain containing 5 220606_s_at C17orf48 chromosome 17 open unknown other reading frame 48 220943_s_at C2orf56 chromosome 2 open Cytoplasm other reading frame 56 220947_s_at TBC1D10B TBC1 domain family, unknown enzyme member 10B 221230_s_at ARID4B AT rich interactive Nucleus other domain 4B (RBP1-like) 221253_s_at TXNDC5 thioredoxin domain Cytoplasm enzyme containing 5 (endoplasmic reticulum) 221434_s_at C14orf156 chromosome 14 open Cytoplasm other reading frame 156 221452_s_at TMEM14B transmembrane protein unknown other 14B 221488_s_at CUTA cutA divalent cation unknown other tolerance homolog (E. coli) 221517_s_at MED17 mediator complex Nucleus transcription subunit 17 regulator 221580_s_at TAF1D TATA box binding Nucleus other protein (TBP)-associated factor, RNA polymerase I, D, 41 kDa 221597_s_at TMEM208 transmembrane protein unknown other 208 221769_at SPSB3 splA/ryanodine receptor unknown other domain and SOCS box containing 3 221832_s_at LUZP1 leucine zipper protein 1 Nucleus other 221869_at ZNF512B zinc finger protein 512B Nucleus other 221923_s_at NPM1 nucleophosmin Nucleus transcription (nucleolar regulator phosphoprotein B23, numatrin) 221987_s_at TSR1 TSR1, 20S rRNA Nucleus other accumulation, homolog (S. cerevisiae) 222000_at C1orf174 chromosome 1 open unknown other reading frame 174 222029_x_at PFDN6 prefoldin subunit 6 Cytoplasm other 222229_x_at RPL26 ribosomal protein L26 Cytoplasm other 222404_x_at PTPLAD1 protein tyrosine Cytoplasm other phosphatase-like A domain containing 1 222405_at PTPLAD1 protein tyrosine Cytoplasm other phosphatase-like A domain containing 1 222418_s_at TMEM43 transmembrane protein Nucleus other 43 222427_s_at LARS leucyl-tRNA synthetase Cytoplasm enzyme 222428_s_at LARS leucyl-tRNA synthetase Cytoplasm enzyme 222703_s_at YRDC yrdC domain containing unknown other (E. coli) 222728_s_at TAF1D TATA box binding Nucleus other protein (TBP)-associated factor, RNA polymerase I, D, 41 kDa 222873_s_at EHMT1 euchromatic histone- Nucleus transcription lysine N- regulator methyltransferase 1 222875_at DHX33 DEAH (Asp-Glu-Ala- Nucleus enzyme His) box polypeptide 33 223010_s_at OCIAD1 OCIA domain Cytoplasm other containing 1 223017_at TXNDC12 thioredoxin domain Cytoplasm enzyme containing 12 (endoplasmic reticulum) 223089_at VEZT vezatin, adherens Plasma other junctions transmembrane Membrane protein 223106_at TMEM14C transmembrane protein Plasma other 14C Membrane 223133_at TMEM14B transmembrane protein unknown other 14B 223151_at DCUN1D5 DCN1, defective in unknown other cullin neddylation 1, domain containing 5 (S. cerevisiae) 223245_at STRBP spermatid perinuclear Cytoplasm other RNA binding protein 223334_at TMEM126A transmembrane protein Cytoplasm other 126A 223336_s_at RAB18 RAB18, member RAS Cytoplasm enzyme oncogene family 223401_at C17orf48 chromosome 17 open unknown other reading frame 48 223414_s_at LYAR Ly1 antibody reactive Plasma other homolog (mouse) Membrane 223440_at C16orf70 chromosome 16 open Cytoplasm other reading frame 70 223448_x_at MRPS22 mitochondrial ribosomal Cytoplasm other protein S22 223560_s_at C2orf56 chromosome 2 open Cytoplasm other reading frame 56 223773_s_at SNHG12 small nucleolar RNA unknown other host gene 12 (non- protein coding) 223907_s_at PINX1 PIN2/TERF1 Nucleus other interacting, telomerase inhibitor 1 223954_x_at NECAB3 N-terminal EF-hand Cytoplasm other calcium binding protein 3 224312_x_at CPSF3L cleavage and Nucleus other polyadenylation specific factor 3-like 224450_s_at RIOK1 RIO kinase 1 (yeast) unknown kinase 224504_s_at BUD13 BUD13 homolog (S. cerevisiae) Nucleus other 224511_s_at TXNDC17 thioredoxin domain Cytoplasm enzyme containing 17 224523_s_at C3orf26 chromosome 3 open unknown other reading frame 26 224610_at SNHG1 small nucleolar RNA unknown other host gene 1 (non-protein coding) 224614_at DYNC1LI2 dynein, cytoplasmic 1, Cytoplasm other light intermediate chain 2 224625_x_at SERF2 small EDRK-rich factor 2 unknown other 224654_at DDX21 DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala- Nucleus enzyme Asp) box polypeptide 21 224777_s_at PAFAH1B2 platelet-activating factor Cytoplasm enzyme acetylhydrolase 1b, catalytic subunit 2 (30 kDa) 224789_at DCAF12 DDB1 and CUL4 Cytoplasm other associated factor 12 224809_x_at TINF2 TERF1 (TRF1)- Nucleus other interacting nuclear factor 2 224886_at JMJD8 jumonji domain unknown other containing 8 224894_at YAP1 Yes-associated protein 1 Nucleus transcription regulator 224907_s_at SH3GLB2 SH3-domain GRB2-like Cytoplasm other endophilin B2 224983_at SCARB2 scavenger receptor class Plasma other B, member 2 Membrane 224986_s_at PDPK1 3-phosphoinositide Cytoplasm kinase dependent protein kinase-1 224998_at CMTM4 CKLF-like MARVEL Extracellular cytokine transmembrane domain Space containing 4 225009_at CMTM4 CKLF-like MARVEL Extracellular cytokine transmembrane domain Space containing 4 225172_at CRAMP1L Crm, cramped-like unknown other (Drosophila) 225231_at CBL Cas-Br-M (murine) Nucleus transcription ecotropic retroviral regulator transforming sequence 225236_at RBM18 RNA binding motif unknown other protein 18 225276_at GSPT1 G1 to S phase transition 1 Cytoplasm translation regulator 225409_at C2orf64 chromosome 2 open Cytoplasm other reading frame 64 225417_at EPC1 enhancer of polycomb Nucleus transcription homolog 1 (Drosophila) regulator 225429_at PPP6C protein phosphatase 6, Nucleus phosphatase catalytic subunit 225461_at EHMT1 euchromatic histone- Nucleus transcription lysine N- regulator methyltransferase 1 225658_at SPOPL speckle-type POZ unknown other protein-like 225659_at SPOPL speckle-type POZ unknown other protein-like 225663_at ACBD5 acyl-CoA binding unknown other domain containing 5 225672_at GOLGA2 golgin A2 Cytoplasm other 225712_at GEMIN5 gem (nuclear organelle) Nucleus other associated protein 5 225771_at AP1G1 adaptor-related protein Cytoplasm transporter complex 1, gamma 1 subunit 225831_at LUZP1 leucine zipper protein 1 Nucleus other 225878_at KIF1B kinesin family member Cytoplasm transporter 1B 225993_at EARS2 glutamyl-tRNA Cytoplasm enzyme synthetase 2, mitochondrial (putative) 226072_at FUK fucokinase unknown kinase 226076_s_at MBD6 methyl-CpG binding unknown other domain protein 6 226095_s_at ATXN1L ataxin 1-like unknown other 226262_at DHX33 DEAH (Asp-Glu-Ala- Nucleus enzyme His) box polypeptide 33 226298_at RUNDC1 RUN domain containing 1 unknown other 226329_s_at MITD1 MIT, microtubule unknown other interacting and transport, domain containing 1 226386_at C7orf30 chromosome 7 open Extracellular other reading frame 30 Space 226392_at 226493_at KCTD18 potassium channel unknown other tetramerisation domain containing 18 226619_at SENP1 SUMO1/sentrin specific Nucleus peptidase peptidase 1 226679_at SLC26A11 solute carrier family 26, Cytoplasm transporter member 11 226692_at SERF2 small EDRK-rich factor 2 unknown other 226784_at TWISTNB TWIST neighbor Nucleus other 226849_at DENND1A DENN/MADD domain Plasma other containing 1A Membrane 226968_at KIF1B kinesin family member Cytoplasm transporter 1B 226981_at MLL myeloid/lymphoid or Nucleus transcription mixed-lineage leukemia regulator (trithorax homolog, Drosophila) 227018_at DPP8 dipeptidyl-peptidase 8 Cytoplasm peptidase 227029_at FAM177A1 family with sequence unknown other similarity 177, member A1 227149_at TNRC6C trinucleotide repeat unknown other containing 6C 227207_x_at ZNF213 zinc finger protein 213 Nucleus transcription regulator 227208_at CCDC84 coiled-coil domain unknown other containing 84 227412_at PPP1R3E protein phosphatase 1, unknown other regulatory (inhibitor) subunit 3E 227700_x_at ATAD3A/ATAD3B ATPase family, AAA Nucleus other domain containing 3A 227833_s_at MBD6 methyl-CpG binding unknown other domain protein 6 227876_at ARHGAP39 Rho GTPase activating Nucleus other protein 39 227904_at AZI2 5-azacytidine induced 2 Cytoplasm other 227905_s_at AZI2 5-azacytidine induced 2 Cytoplasm other 227951_s_at FAM98C family with sequence unknown other similarity 98, member C 228200_at ZNF252 zinc finger protein 252 unknown other 228216_at 228217_s_at PSMG4 proteasome (prosome, unknown transcription macropain) assembly regulator chaperone 4 228283_at CMC1 COX assembly Cytoplasm other mitochondrial protein homolog (S. cerevisiae) 228355_s_at NDUFAF2 NADH dehydrogenase Cytoplasm other (ubiquinone) 1 alpha subcomplex, assembly factor 2 228774_at CEP78 centrosomal protein Cytoplasm other 78 kDa 229262_at LRRC68 leucine rich repeat unknown other containing 68 229582_at INO80C INO80 complex subunit C Nucleus other 229798_s_at BRI3 brain protein I3 unknown other 229884_s_at MRPL2 mitochondrial ribosomal Extracellular other protein L2 Space 230106_at ZXDC ZXD family zinc finger C unknown transcription regulator 230165_at SGOL2 shugoshin-like 2 (S. pombe) Nucleus other 230379_x_at C2orf56 chromosome 2 open Cytoplasm other reading frame 56 231065_at PDE6D phosphodiesterase 6D, Cytoplasm enzyme cGMP-specific, rod, delta 231643_s_at CMIP c-Maf-inducing protein Cytoplasm other 231756_at ZP4 zona pellucida Extracellular other glycoprotein 4 Space 232157_at SPRY3 sprouty homolog 3 Plasma other (Drosophila) Membrane 232219_x_at USP21 ubiquitin specific Cytoplasm peptidase peptidase 21 232350_x_at GPR161 G protein-coupled Plasma G-protein receptor 161 Membrane coupled receptor 233451_at C20orf54 chromosome 20 open Plasma other reading frame 54 Membrane 233588_x_at PFDN6 prefoldin subunit 6 Cytoplasm other 233655_s_at HAUS6 HAUS augmin-like Cytoplasm other complex, subunit 6 233732_at LOC401320 hypothetical unknown other LOC401320 234000_s_at PTPLAD1 protein tyrosine Cytoplasm other phosphatase-like A domain containing 1 234107_s_at DTD1 D-tyrosyl-tRNA Cytoplasm enzyme deacylase 1 homolog (S. cerevisiae) 234735_s_at USP21 ubiquitin specific Cytoplasm peptidase peptidase 21 234983_at 234998_at 235040_at RUNDC1 RUN domain containing 1 unknown other 235459_at 235677_at SRR serine racemase Cytoplasm enzyme 235756_at 236165_at MSL3 male-specific lethal 3 Nucleus transcription homolog (Drosophila) regulator 237045_at FAM91A1 family with sequence unknown other similarity 91, member A1 237167_at KIAA1217 KIAA1217 Cytoplasm other 237875_at 238153_at PDE6B phosphodiesterase 6B, Cytoplasm enzyme cGMP-specific, rod, beta 238652_at 238765_at ATP6V1G1 ATPase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, lysosomal 13 kDa, V1 subunit G1 239042_at TSR1 TSR1, 20S rRNA Nucleus other accumulation, homolog (S. cerevisiae) 239316_at METTL12 methyltransferase like unknown other 12 239616_at REXO2 REX2, RNA Cytoplasm enzyme exonuclease 2 homolog (S. cerevisiae) 240499_at 240698_s_at 241627_x_at ARHGEF40 Rho guanine nucleotide unknown other exchange factor (GEF) 40 242145_at 242335_at SLC25A37 solute carrier family 25, Cytoplasm transporter member 37 242684_at ZNF425 zinc finger protein 425 unknown other 242787_at 242923_at ZNF678 zinc finger protein 678 Nucleus other 243055_at 244377_at SLC1A4 solute carrier family 1 Plasma transporter (glutamate/neutral amino Membrane acid transporter), member 4 244647_at 244765_at 32029_at PDPK1 3-phosphoinositide Cytoplasm kinase dependent protein kinase-1 35436_at GOLGA2 golgin A2 Cytoplasm other 40465_at DDX23 DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala- Nucleus enzyme Asp) box polypeptide 23 41512_at BRAP BRCA1 associated Cytoplasm enzyme protein 45526_g_at NAT15 N-acetyltransferase 15 unknown enzyme (GCN5-related, putative) 45687_at PRR14 proline rich 14 unknown other 46256_at SPSB3 splA/ryanodine receptor unknown other domain and SOCS box containing 3 46270_at UBAP1 ubiquitin associated Cytoplasm other protein 1 50376_at ZNF444 zinc finger protein 444 Nucleus transcription regulator 53987_at RANBP10 RAN binding protein 10 Cytoplasm other 56829_at TRAPPC9 trafficking protein Plasma other particle complex 9 Membrane 61874_at C9orf7 chromosome 9 open unknown other reading frame 7 77508_r_at RABEP2 rabaptin, RAB GTPase Extracellular growth factor binding effector protein 2 Space

TABLE 10 Gene Signature for sensitivity to ACT Probe ID Gene Symbol Entrez Gene Name Location Type(s) 1553103_at NFX1 nuclear transcription Nucleus transcription factor, X-box binding 1 regulator 1554082_a_at NOL9 nucleolar protein 9 Nucleus other 1554213_at ARHGEF10 Rho guanine nucleotide Cytoplasm peptidase exchange factor (GEF) 10 1554537_at TMEM126B transmembrane protein unknown other 126B 1554677_s_at CMTM4 CKLF-like MARVEL Extracellular cytokine transmembrane domain Space containing 4 1555015_a_at ZNF398 zinc finger protein 398 Nucleus transcription regulator 1555399_a_at DUSP16 dual specificity Nucleus phosphatase phosphatase 16 1555500_s_at SLC2A4RG SLC2A4 regulator Cytoplasm transcription regulator 1555897_at KDM1A lysine (K)-specific Nucleus enzyme demethylase 1A 1556442_x_at 1558953_s_at CEP164 centrosomal protein Cytoplasm other 164 kDa 1568877_a_at ACBD5 acyl-CoA binding unknown other domain containing 5 200049_at MYST2 MYST histone Nucleus enzyme acetyltransferase 2 200054_at ZNF259 zinc finger protein 259 Nucleus other 200074_s_at RPL14 ribosomal protein L14 Cytoplasm other 200803_s_at TMBIM6 transmembrane BAX Nucleus other inhibitor motif containing 6 200804_at TMBIM6 transmembrane BAX Nucleus other inhibitor motif containing 6 200864_s_at RAB11A RAB11A, member RAS Cytoplasm enzyme oncogene family 200889_s_at SSR1 signal sequence Cytoplasm other receptor, alpha 200925_at COX6A1 cytochrome c oxidase Cytoplasm enzyme subunit VIa polypeptide 1 200927_s_at RAB14 RAB14, member RAS Cytoplasm enzyme oncogene family 200969_at SERP1 stress-associated Cytoplasm other endoplasmic reticulum protein 1 200987_x_at PSME3 proteasome (prosome, Cytoplasm peptidase macropain) activator subunit 3 (PA28 gamma; Ki) 201068_s_at PSMC2 proteasome (prosome, Nucleus peptidase macropain) 26S subunit, ATPase, 2 201138_s_at SSB Sjogren syndrome Nucleus enzyme antigen B (autoantigen La) 201157_s_at NMT1 N-myristoyltransferase 1 Cytoplasm enzyme 201176_s_at ARCN1 archain 1 Cytoplasm other 201231_s_at ENO1 enolase 1, (alpha) Cytoplasm transcription regulator 201276_at RAB5B RAB5B, member RAS Cytoplasm enzyme oncogene family 201285_at MKRN1 makorin ring finger unknown other protein 1 201306_s_at ANP32B acidic (leucine-rich) Nucleus other nuclear phosphoprotein 32 family, member B 201336_at VAMP3 vesicle-associated Plasma other membrane protein 3 Membrane (cellubrevin) 201370_s_at CUL3 cullin 3 Nucleus enzyme 201503_at G3BP1 GTPase activating Nucleus enzyme protein (SH3 domain) binding protein 1 201582_at SEC23B Sec23 homolog B (S. cerevisiae) Cytoplasm transporter 201623_s_at DARS aspartyl-tRNA Cytoplasm enzyme synthetase 201698_s_at SRSF9 serine/arginine-rich Nucleus enzyme splicing factor 9 201712_s_at RANBP2 RAN binding protein 2 Nucleus enzyme 201776_s_at KIAA0494 KIAA0494 unknown other 201838_s_at SUPT7L suppressor of Ty 7 (S. cerevisiae)- Nucleus transcription like regulator 201948_at GNL2 guanine nucleotide Nucleus enzyme binding protein-like 2 (nucleolar) 201993_x_at HNRPDL heterogeneous nuclear Nucleus other ribonucleoprotein D-like 202042_at HARS histidyl-tRNA Cytoplasm enzyme synthetase 202106_at GOLGA3 golgin A3 Cytoplasm transporter 202136_at ZMYND11 zinc finger, MYND-type Nucleus other containing 11 202137_s_at ZMYND11 zinc finger, MYND-type Nucleus other containing 11 202144_s_at ADSL adenylosuccinate lyase Cytoplasm enzyme 202170_s_at AASDHPPT aminoadipate- Cytoplasm enzyme semialdehyde dehydrogenase- phosphopantetheinyl transferase 202181_at KIAA0247 KIAA0247 unknown other 202249_s_at DCAF8 DDB1 and CUL4 unknown other associated factor 8 202428_x_at DBI diazepam binding Cytoplasm other inhibitor (GABA receptor modulator, acyl- CoA binding protein) 202433_at SLC35B1 solute carrier family 35, Cytoplasm transporter member B1 202448_s_at ZER1 zer-1 homolog (C. elegans) unknown enzyme 202521_at CTCF CCCTC-binding factor Nucleus transcription (zinc finger protein) regulator 202636_at RNF103 ring finger protein 103 Cytoplasm enzyme 202690_s_at SNRPD1 small nuclear Nucleus other ribonucleoprotein D1 polypeptide 16 kDa 202704_at TOB1 transducer of ERBB2, 1 Nucleus transcription regulator 202713_s_at KIAA0391 KIAA0391 unknown other 202882_x_at NOL7 nucleolar protein 7, Nucleus other 27 kDa 202919_at MOBKL3 MOB1, Mps One Cytoplasm other Binder kinase activator- like 3 (yeast) 203009_at BCAM basal cell adhesion Plasma transmembrane molecule (Lutheran Membrane receptor blood group) 203383_s_at GOLGA1 golgin A1 Cytoplasm other 203384_s_at GOLGA1 golgin A1 Cytoplasm other 203405_at PSMG1 proteasome (prosome, Plasma other macropain) assembly Membrane chaperone 1 203436_at RPP30 ribonuclease P/MRP Nucleus enzyme 30 kDa subunit 203492_x_at CEP57 centrosomal protein Cytoplasm other 57 kDa 203529_at PPP6C protein phosphatase 6, Nucleus phosphatase catalytic subunit 203622_s_at PNO1 partner of NOBI Nucleus other homolog (S. cerevisiae) 203693_s_at E2F3 E2F transcription factor 3 Nucleus transcription regulator 203694_s_at DHX16 DEAH (Asp-Glu-Ala- Nucleus enzyme His) box polypeptide 16 203707_at ZNF263 zinc finger protein 263 Nucleus transcription regulator 203764_at DLGAP5 discs, large (Drosophila) Nucleus phosphatase homolog-associated protein 5 203825_at BRD3 bromodomain Nucleus kinase containing 3 203870_at USP46 ubiquitin specific unknown peptidase peptidase 46 203901_at TAB1 TGF-beta activated Cytoplasm enzyme kinase 1/MAP3K7 binding protein 1 203944_x_at BTN2A1 butyrophilin, subfamily Plasma other 2, member A1 Membrane 204028_s_at RABGAP1 RAB GTPase activating Cytoplasm other protein 1 204251_s_at CEP164 centrosomal protein Cytoplasm other 164 kDa 204295_at SURF1 surfeit 1 Cytoplasm enzyme 204315_s_at GTSE1 G-2 and S-phase Cytoplasm other expressed 1 204327_s_at ZNF202 zinc finger protein 202 Nucleus transcription regulator 204371_s_at KHSRP KH-type splicing Nucleus enzyme regulatory protein 204905_s_at EEF1E1 eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm translation elongation factor 1 regulator epsilon 1 204977_at DDX10 DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala- Nucleus enzyme Asp) box polypeptide 10 204986_s_at TAOK2 TAO kinase 2 Cytoplasm kinase 205006_s_at NMT2 N-myristoyltransferase 2 Cytoplasm enzyme 205176_s_at ITGB3BP integrin beta 3 binding Nucleus other protein (beta3- endonexin) 205252_at ZNF174 zinc finger protein 174 Nucleus transcription regulator 205298_s_at BTN2A2 butyrophilin, subfamily unknown other 2, member A2 205423_at AP1B1 adaptor-related protein Cytoplasm transporter complex 1, beta 1 subunit 205545_x_at DNAJC8 DnaJ (Hsp40) homolog, Nucleus other subfamily C, member 8 205594_at ZNF652 zinc finger protein 652 unknown other 205812_s_at TMED9 transmembrane emp24 Cytoplasm transporter protein transport domain containing 9 205996_s_at AK2 adenylate kinase 2 Cytoplasm kinase 206098_at ZBTB6 zinc finger and BTB Nucleus other domain containing 6 206174_s_at PPP6C protein phosphatase 6, Nucleus phosphatase catalytic subunit 206452_x_at PPP2R4 protein phosphatase 2A Cytoplasm phosphatase activator, regulatory subunit 4 207112_s_at GAB1 GRB2-associated Cytoplasm other binding protein 1 207458_at C8orf51 chromosome 8 open unknown other reading frame 51 207573_x_at ATP5L ATP synthase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit G 208002_s_at ACOT7 acyl-CoA thioesterase 7 Cytoplasm enzyme 208398_s_at TBPL1 TBP-like 1 Nucleus transcription regulator 208405_s_at CD164 CD164 molecule, Plasma other sialomucin Membrane 208627_s_at YBX1 Y box binding protein 1 Nucleus transcription regulator 208636_at ACTN1 actinin, alpha 1 Cytoplasm other 208637_x_at ACTN1 actinin, alpha 1 Cytoplasm other 208659_at CLIC1 chloride intracellular Nucleus ion channel channel 1 208736_at ARPC3 actin related protein 2/3 Cytoplasm other complex, subunit 3, 21 kDa 208737_at ATP6V1G1 ATPase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, lysosomal 13 kDa, V1 subunit G1 208746_x_at ATP5L ATP synthase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit G 208756_at EIF3I eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm translation initiation factor 3, regulator subunit I 208839_s_at CAND1 cullin-associated and Cytoplasm transcription neddylation-dissociated 1 regulator 208841_s_at G3BP2 GTPase activating Nucleus enzyme protein (SH3 domain) binding protein 2 208874_x_at PPP2R4 protein phosphatase 2A Cytoplasm phosphatase activator, regulatory subunit 4 208974_x_at KPNB1 karyopherin (importin) Nucleus transporter beta 1 208975_s_at KPNB1 karyopherin (importin) Nucleus transporter beta 1 209232_s_at DCTN5 dynactin 5 (p25) unknown other 209390_at TSC1 tuberous sclerosis 1 Cytoplasm other 209391_at DPM2 dolichyl-phosphate Cytoplasm enzyme mannosyltransferase polypeptide 2, regulatory subunit 209537_at EXTL2 exostoses (multiple)-like 2 Cytoplasm enzyme 209623_at MCCC2 methylcrotonoyl-CoA Cytoplasm enzyme carboxylase 2 (beta) 209624_s_at MCCC2 methylcrotonoyl-CoA Cytoplasm enzyme carboxylase 2 (beta) 209630_s_at FBXW2 F-box and WD repeat Cytoplasm enzyme domain containing 2 209642_at BUB1 budding uninhibited by Nucleus kinase benzimidazoles 1 homolog (yeast) 209654_at KIAA0947 KIAA0947 unknown other 209694_at PTS 6- Cytoplasm enzyme pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase 209798_at NPAT nuclear protein, ataxia- Nucleus transcription telangiectasia locus regulator 209820_s_at TBL3 transducin (beta)-like 3 Cytoplasm peptidase 210005_at GART phosphoribosylglycinamide Cytoplasm enzyme formyltransferase, phosphoribosylglycinamide synthetase, phosphoribosylaminoimidazole synthetase 210097_s_at NOL7 nucleolar protein 7, Nucleus other 27 kDa 210158_at ERCC4 excision repair cross- Nucleus enzyme complementing rodent repair deficiency, complementation group 4 210453_x_at ATP5L ATP synthase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex, subunit G 210466_s_at SERBP1 SERPINE1 mRNA Nucleus other binding protein 1 210581_x_at PATZ1 POZ (BTB) and AT Nucleus transcription hook containing zinc regulator finger 1 210740_s_at ITPK1 inositol 1,3,4- Cytoplasm kinase triphosphate 5/6 kinase 211150_s_at DLAT dihydrolipoamide S- Cytoplasm enzyme acetyltransferase 211392_s_at PATZ1 POZ (BTB) and AT Nucleus transcription hook containing zinc regulator finger 1 211503_s_at RAB14 RAB14, member RAS Cytoplasm enzyme oncogene family 211584_s_at NPAT nuclear protein, ataxia- Nucleus transcription telangiectasia locus regulator 211749_s_at VAMP3 vesicle-associated Plasma other membrane protein 3 Membrane (cellubrevin) 211787_s_at EIF4A1 eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm translation initiation factor 4A1 regulator 211936_at HSPA5 heat shock 70 kDa Cytoplasm other protein 5 (glucose- regulated protein, 78 kDa) 211979_at GPR107 G protein-coupled Plasma G-protein receptor 107 Membrane coupled receptor 211985_s_at CALM1 calmodulin 1 unknown other (includes others) (phosphorylase kinase, delta) 212032_s_at PTOV1 prostate tumor Nucleus other overexpressed 1 212053_at PDXDC1 pyridoxal-dependent unknown other decarboxylase domain containing 1 212064_x_at MAZ MYC-associated zinc Nucleus transcription finger protein (purine- regulator binding transcription factor) 212164_at TMEM183A transmembrane protein unknown other 183A 212246_at MCFD2 multiple coagulation Cytoplasm other factor deficiency 2 212320_at TUBB tubulin, beta Cytoplasm other 212367_at FEM1B fem-1 homolog b (C. elegans) Nucleus transcription regulator 212400_at FAM102A family with sequence unknown other similarity 102, member A 212403_at UBE3B ubiquitin protein ligase unknown enzyme E3B 212404_s_at UBE3B ubiquitin protein ligase unknown enzyme E3B 212485_at GPATCH8 G patch domain unknown other containing 8 212487_at GPATCH8 G patch domain unknown other containing 8 212506_at PICALM phosphatidylinositol Cytoplasm other binding clathrin assembly protein 212547_at BRD3 bromodomain Nucleus kinase containing 3 212568_s_at DLAT dihydrolipoamide S- Cytoplasm enzyme acetyltransferase 212571_at CHD8 chromodomain helicase Nucleus enzyme DNA binding protein 8 212637_s_at WWP1 WW domain containing Cytoplasm enzyme E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1 212638_s_at WWP1 WW domain containing Cytoplasm enzyme E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1 212652_s_at SNX4 sorting nexin 4 Cytoplasm transporter 212653_s_at EHBP1 EH domain binding unknown other protein 1 212729_at DLG3 discs, large homolog 3 Plasma kinase (Drosophila) Membrane 212858_at PAQR4 progestin and adipoQ unknown other receptor family member IV 212871_at MAPKAPK5 mitogen-activated Cytoplasm kinase protein kinase-activated protein kinase 5 212920_at REST RE1-silencing Nucleus transcription transcription factor regulator 213025_at THUMPD1 THUMP domain unknown other containing 1 213102_at ACTR3 ARP3 actin-related Plasma other protein 3 homolog Membrane (yeast) 213120_at UHRF1BP1L UHRF1 binding protein unknown other 1-like 213141_at PSKH1 protein serine kinase H1 Nucleus kinase 213145_at FBXL14 F-box and leucine-rich unknown other repeat protein 14 213185_at KIAA0556 KIAA0556 Extracellular other Space 213196_at ZNF629 zinc finger protein 629 Nucleus other 213237_at C16orf88 chromosome 16 open unknown other reading frame 88 213313_at RABGAP1 RAB GTPase activating Cytoplasm other protein 1 213398_s_at SDR39U1 short chain unknown other dehydrogenase/reductase family 39U, member 1 213473_at BRAP BRCA1 associated Cytoplasm enzyme protein 213615_at LPCAT3 lysophosphatidylcholine Plasma other acyltransferase 3 Membrane 213681_at CYHR1 cysteine/histidine-rich 1 unknown other 213688_at CALM1 calmodulin 1 unknown other (includes others) (phosphorylase kinase, delta) 213743_at CCNT2 cyclin T2 Nucleus transcription regulator 213798_s_at CAP1 CAP, adenylate cyclase- Plasma other associated protein 1 Membrane (yeast) 213803_at KPNB1 karyopherin (importin) Nucleus transporter beta 1 213864_s_at NAP1L1 nucleosome assembly Nucleus other protein 1-like 1 214011_s_at NOP16 NOP16 nucleolar Nucleus other protein homolog (yeast) 214070_s_at ATP10B ATPase, class V, type Plasma transporter 10B Membrane 214138_at ZNF79 zinc finger protein 79 Nucleus other 214635_at CLDN9 claudin 9 Plasma other Membrane 215088_s_at SDHC succinate Cytoplasm enzyme dehydrogenase complex, subunit C, integral membrane protein, 15 kDa 215207_x_at NUS1 nuclear undecaprenyl unknown other pyrophosphate synthase 1 homolog (S. cerevisiae) 215493_x_at BTN2A1 butyrophilin, subfamily Plasma other 2, member A1 Membrane 215696_s_at SEC16A SEC16 homolog A (S. cerevisiae) Cytoplasm phosphatase 215792_s_at DNAJC11 DnaJ (Hsp40) homolog, Cytoplasm other subfamily C, member 11 216105_x_at PPP2R4 protein phosphatase 2A Cytoplasm phosphatase activator, regulatory subunit 4 216326_s_at HDAC3 histone deacetylase 3 Nucleus transcription regulator 216389_s_at DCAF11 DDB1 and CUL4 unknown other associated factor 11 216591_s_at SDHC succinate Cytoplasm enzyme dehydrogenase complex, subunit C, integral membrane protein, 15 kDa 217294_s_at ENO1 enolase 1, (alpha) Cytoplasm transcription regulator 217747_s_at RPS9 ribosomal protein S9 Cytoplasm translation regulator 217777_s_at PTPLAD1 protein tyrosine Cytoplasm other phosphatase-like A domain containing 1 217971_at LAMTOR3 late Cytoplasm other endosomal/lysosomal adaptor, MAPK and MTOR activator 3 217994_x_at CPSF3L cleavage and Nucleus other polyadenylation specific factor 3-like 218107_at WDR26 WD repeat domain 26 Cytoplasm other 218333_at DERL2 Der1-like domain Cytoplasm other family, member 2 218367_x_at USP21 ubiquitin specific Cytoplasm peptidase peptidase 21 218494_s_at SLC2A4RG SLC2A4 regulator Cytoplasm transcription regulator 218512_at WDR12 WD repeat domain 12 Cytoplasm other 218527_at APTX aprataxin Nucleus phosphatase 218555_at ANAPC2 anaphase promoting Nucleus enzyme complex subunit 2 218558_s_at MRPL39 mitochondrial ribosomal Cytoplasm other protein L39 218561_s_at LYRM4 LYR motif containing 4 Cytoplasm other 218566_s_at CHORDC1 cysteine and histidine- unknown other rich domain (CHORD) containing 1 218577_at LRRC40 leucine rich repeat Nucleus other containing 40 218626_at EIF4ENIF1 eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm translation initiation factor 4E regulator nuclear import factor 1 218646_at C4orf27 chromosome 4 open Nucleus other reading frame 27 218661_at NAT15 N-acetyltransferase 15 unknown enzyme (GCN5-related, putative) 218696_at EIF2AK3 eukaryotic translation Cytoplasm kinase initiation factor 2-alpha kinase 3 218715_at UTP6 UTP6, small subunit Nucleus other (SSU) processome component, homolog (yeast) 218754_at NOL9 nucleolar protein 9 Nucleus other 218886_at PAK1IP1 PAK1 interacting Nucleus other Protein 1 218982_s_at MRPS17 mitochondrial ribosomal Cytoplasm other protein S17 219023_at AP1AR adaptor-related protein Cytoplasm other complex 1 associated regulatory protein 219081_at ANKHD1 ankyrin repeat and KH Nucleus transcription domain containing 1 regulator 219086_at ZNF839 zinc finger protein 839 unknown other 219098_at MYBBP1A MYB binding protein Nucleus transcription (P160) 1a regulator 219122_s_at THG1L tRNA-histidine Cytoplasm enzyme guanylyltransferase 1- like (S. cerevisiae) 219223_at C9orf7 chromosome 9 open unknown other reading frame 7 219237_s_at DNAJB14 DnaJ (Hsp40) homolog, unknown enzyme subfamily B, member 14 219339_s_at EHMT1 euchromatic histone- Nucleus transcription lysine N- regulator methyltransferase 1 219374_s_at ALG9 asparagine-linked Cytoplasm enzyme glycosylation 9, alpha- 1,2-mannosyltransferase homolog (S. cerevisiae) 219679_s_at WAC WW domain containing Nucleus other adaptor with coiled-coil 219767_s_at CRYZL1 crystallin, zeta (quinone Cytoplasm enzyme reductase)-like 1 219929_s_at ZFYVE21 zinc finger, FYVE unknown other domain containing 21 220052_s_at TINF2 TERF1 (TRF1)- Nucleus other interacting nuclear factor 2 220419_s_at USP25 ubiquitin specific unknown peptidase peptidase 25 220606_s_at C17orf48 chromosome 17 open unknown other reading frame 48 220947_s_at TBC1D10B TBC1 domain family, unknown enzyme member 10B 220964_s_at RAB1B RAB1B, member RAS Cytoplasm enzyme oncogene family 221096_s_at TMCO6 transmembrane and unknown other coiled-coil domains 6 221230_s_at ARID4B AT rich interactive Nucleus other domain 4B (RBP1-like) 221253_s_at TXNDC5 thioredoxin domain Cytoplasm enzyme containing 5 (endoplasmic reticulum) 221263_s_at SF3B5 splicing factor 3b, Nucleus other subunit 5, 10 kDa 221488_s_at CUTA cutA divalent cation unknown other tolerance homolog (E. coli) 221517_s_at MED17 mediator complex Nucleus transcription subunit 17 regulator 221685_s_at CCDC99 coiled-coil domain Nucleus other containing 99 221691_x_at NPM1 nucleophosmin Nucleus transcription (nucleolar regulator phosphoprotein B23, numatrin) 221769_at SPSB3 splA/ryanodine receptor unknown other domain and SOCS box containing 3 221836_s_at TRAPPC9 trafficking protein Plasma other particle complex 9 Membrane 221869_at ZNF512B zinc finger protein 512B Nucleus other 221923_s_at NPM1 nucleophosmin Nucleus transcription (nucleolar regulator phosphoprotein B23, numatrin) 221934_s_at DALRD3 DALR anticodon unknown other binding domain containing 3 222000_at C1orf174 chromosome 1 open unknown other reading frame 174 222039_at KIF18B kinesin family member unknown other 18B 222229_x_at RPL26 ribosomal protein L26 Cytoplasm other 222283_at ZNF480 zinc finger protein 480 Nucleus other 222405_at PTPLAD1 protein tyrosine Cytoplasm other phosphatase-like A domain containing 1 222518_at ARFGEF2 ADP-ribosylation factor Cytoplasm other guanine nucleotide- exchange factor 2 (brefeldin A-inhibited) 222646_s_at ERO1L ERO1-like (S. cerevisiae) Cytoplasm enzyme 222720_x_at C1orf27 chromosome 1 open unknown other reading frame 27 222850_s_at DNAJB14 DnaJ (Hsp40) homolog, unknown enzyme subfamily B, member 14 222873_s_at EHMT1 euchromatic histone- Nucleus transcription lysine N- regulator methyltransferase 1 222875_at DHX33 DEAH (Asp-Glu-Ala- Nucleus enzyme His) box polypeptide 33 222887_s_at TMEM127 transmembrane protein unknown other 127 223010_s_at OCIAD1 OCIA domain Cytoplasm other containing 1 223016_x_at ZRANB2 zinc finger, RAN- Nucleus transcription binding domain regulator containing 2 223067_at CWC15 CWC15 spliceosome- Nucleus other associated protein homolog (S. cerevisiae) 223105_s_at TMEM14C transmembrane protein Plasma other 14C Membrane 223151_at DCUN1D5 DCN1, defective in unknown other cullin neddylation 1, domain containing 5 (S. cerevisiae) 223288_at USP38 ubiquitin specific unknown peptidase peptidase 38 223289_s_at USP38 ubiquitin specific unknown peptidase peptidase 38 223334_at TMEM126A transmembrane protein Cytoplasm other 126A 223336_s_at RAB18 RAB18, member RAS Cytoplasm enzyme oncogene family 223401_at C17orf48 chromosome 17 open unknown other reading frame 48 223440_at C16orf70 chromosome 16 open Cytoplasm other reading frame 70 223716_s_at ZRANB2 zinc finger, RAN- Nucleus transcription binding domain regulator containing 2 223776_x_at TINF2 TERF1 (TRF1)- Nucleus other interacting nuclear factor 2 223907_s_at PINX1 PIN2/TERF1 Nucleus other interacting, telomerase inhibitor 1 223954_x_at NECAB3 N-terminal EF-hand Cytoplasm other calcium binding protein 3 224312_x_at CPSF3L cleavage and Nucleus other polyadenylation specific factor 3-like 224445_s_at ZFYVE21 zinc finger, FYVE unknown other domain containing 21 224450_s_at RIOK1 RIO kinase 1 (yeast) unknown kinase 224504_s_at BUD13 BUD13 homolog (S. cerevisiae) Nucleus other 224523_s_at C3orf26 chromosome 3 open unknown other reading frame 26 224610_at SNHG1 small nucleolar RNA unknown other host gene 1 (non-protein coding) 224612_s_at DNAJC5 DnaJ (Hsp40) homolog, Plasma other subfamily C, member 5 Membrane 224613_s_at DNAJC5 DnaJ (Hsp40) homolog, Plasma other subfamily C, member 5 Membrane 224654_at DDX21 DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala- Nucleus enzyme Asp) box polypeptide 21 224777_s_at PAFAH1B2 platelet-activating factor Cytoplasm enzyme acetylhydrolase 1b, catalytic subunit 2 (30 kDa) 224789_at DCAF12 DDB1 and CUL4 Cytoplasm other associated factor 12 224809_x_at TINF2 TERF1 (TRF1)- Nucleus other interacting nuclear factor 2 224986_s_at PDPK1 3-phosphoinositide Cytoplasm kinase dependent protein kinase-1 224998_at CMTM4 CKLF-like MARVEL Extracellular cytokine transmembrane domain Space containing 4 225023_at GOPC golgi-associated PDZ Cytoplasm transporter and coiled-coil motif containing 225052_at TMEM203 transmembrane protein unknown other 203 225172_at CRAMP1L Crm, cramped-like unknown other (Drosophila) 225194_at PLRG1 pleiotropic regulator 1 Nucleus transcription (PRL1 homolog, regulator Arabidopsis) 225231_at CBL Cas-Br-M (murine) Nucleus transcription ecotropic retroviral regulator transforming sequence 225276_at GSPT1 G1 to S phase transition 1 Cytoplasm translation regulator 225426_at PPP6C protein phosphatase 6, Nucleus phosphatase catalytic subunit 225429_at PPP6C protein phosphatase 6, Nucleus phosphatase catalytic subunit 225461_at EHMT1 euchromatic histone- Nucleus transcription lysine N- regulator methyltransferase 1 225545_at EEF2K eukaryotic elongation Cytoplasm kinase factor-2 kinase 225659_at SPOPL speckle-type POZ unknown other protein-like 225663_at ACBD5 acyl-CoA binding unknown other domain containing 5 225672_at GOLGA2 golgin A2 Cytoplasm other 225719_s_at MRPL55 mitochondrial ribosomal Cytoplasm other protein L55 225771_at AP1G1 adaptor-related protein Cytoplasm transporter complex 1, gamma 1 subunit 225779_at SLC27A4 solute carrier family 27 Plasma transporter (fatty acid transporter), Membrane member 4 225831_at LUZP1 leucine zipper protein 1 Nucleus other 225866_at RPF2 ribosome production Nucleus other factor 2 homolog (S. cerevisiae) 225878_at KIF1B kinesin family member Cytoplasm transporter 1B 225993_at EARS2 glutamyl-tRNA Cytoplasm enzyme synthetase 2, mitochondrial (putative) 225998_at GAB1 GRB2-associated Cytoplasm other binding protein 1 226115_at AHCTF1 AT hook containing Nucleus transcription transcription factor 1 regulator 226151_x_at CRYZL1 crystallin, zeta (quinone Cytoplasm enzyme reductase)-like 1 226262_at DHX33 DEAH (Asp-Glu-Ala- Nucleus enzyme His) box polypeptide 33 226268_at RAB21 RAB21, member RAS Cytoplasm enzyme oncogene family 226298_at RUNDC1 RUN domain containing 1 unknown other 226329_s_at MITD1 MIT, microtubule unknown other interacting and transport, domain containing 1 226399_at 226493_at KCTD18 potassium channel unknown other tetramerisation domain containing 18 226531_at ORAI1 ORAI calcium release- Plasma ion channel activated calcium Membrane modulator 1 226566_at TRIM11 tripartite motif Cytoplasm other containing 11 226679_at SLC26A11 solute carrier family 26, Cytoplasm transporter member 11 226692_at SERF2 small EDRK-rich factor 2 unknown other 226784_at TWISTNB TWIST neighbor Nucleus other 226849_at DENND1A DENN/MADD domain Plasma other containing 1A Membrane 226874_at KLHL8 kelch-like 8 unknown other (Drosophila) 226936_at CENPW centromere protein W unknown other 226967_at FIZ1 FLT3-interacting zinc Nucleus other finger 1 226968_at KIF1B kinesin family member Cytoplasm transporter 1B 226981_at MLL myeloid/lymphoid or Nucleus transcription mixed-lineage leukemia regulator (trithorax homolog, Drosophila) 227029_at FAM177A1 family with sequence unknown other similarity 177, member A1 227207_x_at ZNF213 zinc finger protein 213 Nucleus transcription regulator 227208_at CCDC84 coiled-coil domain unknown other containing 84 227412_at PPP1R3E protein phosphatase 1, unknown other regulatory (inhibitor) subunit 3E 227541_at WDR20 WD repeat domain 20 unknown other 227562_at LAMTOR3 late Cytoplasm other endosomal/lysosomal adaptor, MAPK and MTOR activator 3 227739_at NDOR1 NADPH dependent Cytoplasm enzyme diflavin oxidoreductase 1 227813_at THAP6 THAP domain unknown other containing 6 227876_at ARHGAP39 Rho GTPase activating Nucleus other protein 39 227908_at TBC1D24 TBC1 domain family, Cytoplasm other member 24 228200_at ZNF252 zinc finger protein 252 unknown other 228216_at 228217_s_at PSMG4 proteasome (prosome, unknown transcription macropain) assembly regulator chaperone 4 228355_s_at NDUFAF2 NADH dehydrogenase Cytoplasm other (ubiquinone) 1 alpha subcomplex, assembly factor 2 228437_at CNIH4 cornichon homolog 4 Plasma other (Drosophila) Membrane 228457_at 228566_at RPRD1A regulation of nuclear unknown other pre-mRNA domain containing 1A 228612_at LOC100506233 hypothetical unknown other LOC100506233 228710_at 228774_at CEP78 centrosomal protein Cytoplasm other 78 kDa 229375_at PPIE peptidylprolyl isomerase Nucleus enzyme E (cyclophilin E) 229466_at TRIM66 tripartite motif Nucleus transcription containing 66 regulator 229582_at INO80C INO80 complex subunit C Nucleus other 229867_at BTBD9 BTB (POZ) domain unknown other containing 9 230106_at ZXDC ZXD family zinc finger C unknown transcription regulator 230165_at SGOL2 shugoshin-like 2 (S. pombe) Nucleus other 230241_at TOR1AIP2 torsin A interacting Cytoplasm other protein 2 230379_x_at C2orf56 chromosome 2 open Cytoplasm other reading frame 56 230623_x_at USP28 ubiquitin specific Nucleus peptidase peptidase 28 231065_at PDE6D phosphodiesterase 6D, Cytoplasm enzyme cGMP-specific, rod, delta 231111_at 231437_at SLC35D2 solute carrier family 35, Cytoplasm transporter member D2 232219_x_at USP21 ubiquitin specific Cytoplasm peptidase peptidase 21 232860_x_at RBM41 RNA binding motif unknown other protein 41 233625_x_at CPSF3L cleavage and Nucleus other polyadenylation specific factor 3-like 233732_at LOC401320 hypothetical unknown other LOC401320 234735_s_at USP21 ubiquitin specific Cytoplasm peptidase peptidase 21 234998_at 235040_at RUNDC1 RUN domain containing 1 unknown other 235577_at ZNF652 zinc finger protein 652 unknown other 235610_at ALKBH8 alkB, alkylation repair Cytoplasm enzyme homolog 8 (E. coli) 235677_at SRR serine racemase Cytoplasm enzyme 235971_at 236160_at TRIP11 thyroid hormone Cytoplasm transcription receptor interactor 11 regulator 236165_at MSL3 male-specific lethal 3 Nucleus transcription homolog (Drosophila) regulator 238538_at ANKRD11 ankyrin repeat domain Nucleus other 11 238660_at WDFY3 WD repeat and FYVE Cytoplasm enzyme domain containing 3 238765_at ATP6V1G1 ATPase, H+ Cytoplasm transporter transporting, lysosomal 13 kDa, V1 subunit G1 238797_at TRIM11 tripartite motif Cytoplasm other containing 11 239053_at CIAO1 cytosolic iron-sulfur Nucleus transcription protein assembly 1 regulator 239081_at 239324_at 239329_at 239616_at REXO2 REX2, RNA Cytoplasm enzyme exonuclease 2 homolog (S. cerevisiae) 239794_at 240499_at 240538_at 241627_x_at ARHGEF40 Rho guanine nucleotide unknown other exchange factor (GEF) 40 241721_at 242019_at LASS6 LAG1 homolog, Nucleus transcription ceramide synthase 6 regulator 242145_at 242389_at 242684_at ZNF425 zinc finger protein 425 unknown other 242923_at ZNF678 zinc finger protein 678 Nucleus other 243055_at 243690_at TRIOBP TRIO and F-actin Nucleus other binding protein 244022_at 244765_at 32029_at PDPK1 3-phosphoinositide Cytoplasm kinase dependent protein kinase-1 35436_at GOLGA2 golgin A2 Cytoplasm other 37831_at SIPA1L3 signal-induced unknown other proliferation-associated 1 like 3 40465_at DDX23 DEAD (Asp-Glu-Ala- Nucleus enzyme Asp) box polypeptide 23 41512_at BRAP BRCA1 associated Cytoplasm enzyme protein 44563_at WRAP53 WD repeat containing, Nucleus other antisense to TP53 45526_g_at NAT15 N-acetyltransferase 15 unknown enzyme (GCN5-related, putative) 46256_at SPSB3 splA/ryanodine receptor unknown other domain and SOCS box containing 3 50376_at ZNF444 zinc finger protein 444 Nucleus transcription regulator 56829_at TRAPPC9 trafficking protein Plasma other particle complex 9 Membrane 61874_at C9orf7 chromosome 9 open unknown other reading frame 7 64440_at IL17RC interleukin 17 receptor C Plasma other Membrane 64883_at MOSPD2 motile sperm domain unknown other containing 2 74694_s_at RABEP2 rabaptin, RAB GTPase Extracellular growth factor binding effector protein 2 Space 77508_r_at RABEP2 rabaptin, RAB GTPase Extracellular growth factor binding effector protein 2 Space

Without further description, it is believed that one of ordinary skill in the art can, using the preceding description and illustrative examples, practice the invention including as claimed below.

All references cited herein are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties and for all purposes. 

1. A method for preparing a gene expression profile indicative of drug-sensitivity or drug-resistance, comprising: extracting RNA from a patient tumor specimen or cells cultured therefrom, and determining the level of expression for at least 10 genes listed in one of Tables 1-10, thereby preparing the gene expression profile.
 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the tumor is derived from a tissue selected from breast, ovaries, lung, colon, skin, prostate, kidney, endometrium, nasopharynx, pancreas, head and neck, kidney, and brain.
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 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the tumor specimen is a breast tumor specimen, and the breast tumor specimen is optionally determined to be ER+ or ER−.
 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the patient has primary cancer.
 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the patient has recurrent cancer.
 8. The method of claim 1, wherein the patient is a candidate for treatment with a combination selected from: cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, fluorouracil, and paclitaxel (TFAC); cyclophosphamide and epirubicin (EC); fluorouracil, cyclophosphamide and doxrubicin (FAC); cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin (AC); cyclophosphamide, docetaxel, and doxorubicin (ACT), cyclophosphamide, docetaxel, epirubicin, and fluorouracil, (TFEC), docetaxel and fluorouracil (DX).
 9. The method of claim 1, wherein the RNA is extracted from a tumor specimen.
 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the tumor specimen is formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded.
 11. The method of claim 1, wherein the RNA is extracted from cultured cells derived from the tumor specimen.
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 14. The method of claim 1, wherein the levels of expression are determined by hybridizing nucleic acids to oligonucleotide probes, by RT-PCR, or by direct mRNA capture.
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 19. The method of claim 1, wherein the gene expression profile comprises the level of expression for at least about 100 genes listed in one of Tables 1-10.
 20. The method of claim 1, wherein the gene expression profile comprises the level of expression for at least about 200 genes listed in one of Tables 1-10. 21-28. (canceled)
 29. A method for evaluating the sensitivity of a tumor to one or a combination of chemotherapeutic agents, comprising: preparing a gene expression profile for a tumor specimen according to claim 1; and determining the presence of at least one gene expression signature indicative of drug-sensitivity or drug-resistance, thereby classifying the profile as a drug-sensitive or drug-resistant profile, wherein the gene signature is based on in vitro chemosensitivity of cell lines.
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 32. The method of claim 29, wherein the gene expression signature is predictive of efficacy for one or more of treatment with TFAC, EC, FEC, AC, ACT, TFEC, or DX.
 33. The method of claim 29, wherein the gene expression profile is classified by using one or more of Principal Components Analysis, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines, Nearest Neighbors, Decision Trees, Logistic, Artificial Neural Networks, and Rule-based schemes.
 34. The method of claim 29, wherein the gene expression signature is predictive of survival, pathological complete response (pCR), reduction in tumor size, or duration of progression free interval upon treatment with a chemotherapeutic agent or combination.
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 36. A computer system for performing the method of claim
 1. 37. A probe array or probe set for performing the method of claim
 1. 